39 comments on UK Government Response to Peak Oil Petition
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I've told my family about PO, and the response has been heartbreaking. I don't want to "leave them alone" but maybe your advice is good.
1. Brother: "Sounds scary, but I'm no expert, so I don't need to know. BUSH SUCKS! GLOBAL WARMING!"
2. Mother: "Hmm, some merit in what you say. BUSH RULES!"
3. Father: "Things will turn out OK for everyone, they always have and always will."
bmcnett,
That is about the same response I got from my family. People won't care until they are paying $5+ at pump and the MSM starts to do stories. Buy that time, well ya know...
I agree completely with you, and I doubt the inevitable MSM stories will be honest. I suspect that the left MSM will blame Cheney Blackwater Bush, and the right MSM will blame terrorist socialist communist anarchist anti-semitic dictators.
Funny, I was thinking relatively the same thing after I posted regarding MSM.
On a side note: I live in San Diego and have been frequenting housing blogs for well over a year, which as you might imagine were calling for a major decline long before MSM even thought about it. When I tried to warn a few freinds that were in the market back in early 06 I was met with the same skepticism and labeled a "doomer". Well one of my freinds bought and lost about 15% on their home, which equates to about 75K. Now those same freinds are calling me a "doomer" in regards to PO. I give up...
Like me, you need better friends. Seriously, cut off ties with these losers and get in with some group that understands. Even if it's just a buncha weird survivalists that are mostly misguided, you're better off associating with them than with mainstreamers.
Regarding MSM in my country (USA), the left vs. right bickering looks like an irrelevant show to give the appearance that the MSM does more than act as a sounding horn for the government.
For some reason the MSM is very preoccupied with scaring us about terrorism when they should be spending more time scaring us about the energy crisis. I believe when the first 1 or 2 million bpd of global production is soon lost for good it will again be the terror card that gets played, probably giving the green light to invade Iran or Venezuela. That will also be the time to start using all the newly legal restrictions on civil liberties necessary to deal with the chaos at home.
bmcnett,
You hit the nail on the head. In the U.S. I can already visualize Ann Coulter on CNN blaming liberals because they won't open (fill in your fav. govt. owned land.) Then Al Gore will publish another documentary and demonize every compnay that has anything to do with oil. That will be the discourse in the media. Meanwhile Jeffery Brown and Matt Simmons will just sit and wait for an interview that will never come.
When did Al Gore demonise big oil?
He has demonised the parts of Big Oil that have sought to actively undermine the entire science of global warming, through aggressive lobbying (Exxon). And Big Coal has done an even more aggressive job lobbying the Bush Administration, and entirely successfully.
This wasn't demonisation. It was facts. Well documented facts regarding the lobbying activities of (some) of these companies.
Read Jeremy Leggett's 'The Carbon Wars' for a sense of what big fossil fuel producers got up to in the 90s.
But your dichotomy between left and right is false. Al Gore is no Anne Coulter, who is quite prepared to call her opponents 'traitors' and 'fags'.
I've talked with my friends and gotten a very different response:
B. - we're looking into that nitropack food stuff - like a six month supply. Oh, but he works for a large real estate company ... quite scary, IMHO.
S. - dad bought twenty acres in the boonies and filled the house up with guns, ammo, and MREs. We're to head there when TSHTF.
C. - got guns, got ammo, got some other stuff ... wish I had more money.
J. - devout Evangelical, expecting a thunderclap I think, but in the mean time starting to buy and play with various post PO technology stuff.
L. - plotting a move to an organic farming facility in rural Missouri.
T. - house mortgage is small, I'm a scrounger ... you really think we'll see TSHTF on this stuff?
Mom - "You're crazy." But she stepped up her canning just in case.
Haven't broached the topic with baby brother ... he is educated and all, but he just won't go there until it picks him up and slams him face first into the pavement. These guys are all 40 +/- a little bit, except for mom.
So ... people are starting to know something is coming and nothing but humanure is coming out of D.C. no matter who gets elected ...
My Mom's response has actually been somewhat similar to your friends'. She is quite interested in my advice on the oil & gold futures markets, and seems to understand that global conflict is ultimately about fuel. In private of course.
In public, it's all "Bush good!" "welfare queens who drive Mercedes and get nail jobs bad!"
1. Brother: humans are super innovative when stressed. We'll develop the technology
2. Sister, Mother-in-law: if we're fucked we're fucked, what can you do about it anyway? Stop worrying.
3. Father - Yeah, I've known we're fucked for a while now. Goes back to playing bridge
4. Mom - Yeah, it's bad, but not as bad as those muslim terrorists. We need a military draft.
5. Father-in-law: you're crazy.