Never mind the details, suffice it to say that in my department, my mention of peak oil was scoffed at a year ago. Even lately, as I've mentioned again, the response is blank stares.

I actually had a real success yesterday. I took one of my former colleagues out to lunch and we had a nice chit chat about this and that. We talked about blogging and I showed him my energy blog and asked him if he had ever heard of peak oil. Vaguely he said he had. I then gave him a whirlwind tour of the topic in 30 minutes. I capped it off with the export land model as I understand it and before I was 2 minutes into the explanation he interrupted and said: "... that means that the declines for us would be experienced faster than a geological peak." He completely understood.

I showed him TOD and he started clicking through Stuart's or Khebab's recent posts about production ... intensely looking at the graphs. I mentioned ELP, he got it too. He said "Send me the TOD link."

I also mentioned doomer pr0n and cornucopians ... "where do you sit?" I told him on the fence!