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317 comments on DrumBeat: May 25, 2008

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kriscan on May 25, 2008 - 10:10am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I agree - the peakoil.com site is sloooooow. I posted a request for questions for James Howard Kunstler there but the site is not responding.

Very good to see links to these sites on mainstream media!

Can you help me out? Here is my request:

Mr. Kunstler commented on my show in a recent podcast. I provided a video response/request and he has agreed to an interview. I would like to hear the thoughts of this community: what questions do you have for Mr. Kunstler?

I know this oil drum may not be the site for such a request so feel free to comment at http://www.kriscan.com or wait for peakoil.com to come back online.

Thanks for all you do!

Kris

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Peak_a_Boo on May 25, 2008 - 12:35pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Nice web site. You remind me of Obama girl for some reason. Go Peak Oil Girl!

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Dragonfly41 on May 25, 2008 - 1:42pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Ya...are you the woman that did the PO video/strip dance thing not too long ago? Good PR stunt I thought.

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SwordsOfDamocles on May 25, 2008 - 3:21pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

LOL, the peak oil strip video was my favorite, I didn't understand a single word she was saying... lol, just kidding, it is nice to see women so passionate about a subject like this.. All the college women my age are too into getting wasted at frat parties to consider, much less understand, such issues. Good work though

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The Chimp Who Can Drive on May 25, 2008 - 3:42pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Kris,

I run a Peak Oil website (http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net) and am starting a cult . . . excuse me - "post oil sustainable commune" - in the woods here in Northern California. Perhaps you'd be interested in being the cult's . . . excuse me "community's" Alpha-Female. If so, feel free to contact me via the website.

http://tinyurl.com/6mzwkm

Best,

Matt

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Dragonfly41 on May 25, 2008 - 4:18pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Ha...Matt,

You have no scruples whatsoever. I think she's a bit too intelligent for your band of monkeys!!

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totoneila on May 25, 2008 - 4:57pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Attn Kris & Matt:

I think you two would make an excellent match--just an opinion from an older guy--hope you two can somehow meet & greet in person.

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Wharf Rat on May 25, 2008 - 6:15pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Why, you dirty old man. Wish I had thoght of that.

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The Chimp Who Can Drive on May 25, 2008 - 6:41pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I'm 29.

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Wharf Rat on May 25, 2008 - 8:33pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

If I was 29, I'd be a dirty old man, too. Now, at 63, I'm just old and dirty.

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calgarydude on May 25, 2008 - 7:01pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Dude, you are true visionary!!

Until now, I've been concerning myself with oil supplies and boring stuff like that. The real solution is for the "enlightened" to form cults and let the vast majority of people die.

New Cult Checklist
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1) need a name (Calgary Cargo Cult?)
2) some land (shouldn't be a problem)
3) cult vision (repopulating the planet)
4) supreme leader (I was just elected)
5) female/male ratio (10:1, 20:1, 50:1 ?)
6) financing (I'll think of something)

Great time to be starting a cult.
After all, somebody has to do it. :))

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pi on May 25, 2008 - 9:50pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

From page 311 of The Entropy Law and the Economic Process by Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen:

"..only in the late twilight ofthe human species, when human society will very likely disintegrate into small packs of humans, will the social factors which produce the circulation of elites fade away, too."

Is NOW the "late twilight" that G-R means?

Anyone else read this book? I found it haunting, interesting, prescient. It was published in 1971, by the way!

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Bitteroldcoot on May 25, 2008 - 8:01pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I thing you are going to need more than a website and some land.

The culture hasn't yet made the shift to: sustainable lifestyle = superior mate.

During this transition period, you are probably going to have to spice up your offer with some of the more traditional attractants. Diamonds and gold make good bait, especially in an inflationary environment.

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Subkommander Dred on May 26, 2008 - 12:40am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Now you just hold on one minute, Matt Savinar! I'm the one that's gonna be puttin' together the post apocalyptic peak oil cult! I'm gonna call it "The Church of Unlimited Credit," and I'm the "All Knowing, All Seeing One Of Great Vision."

Just so we have that understood...

SubKommander Dred

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Bitteroldcoot on May 25, 2008 - 5:01pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Well, now you've done it!

As a good looking intelligent women in a room full of nerds, it is only a mater of time before the marriage proposals start.

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jokuhl on May 26, 2008 - 12:41am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Hey Kris;
Thanks for posting here. Sorry to see that noone really tried to give you any Kunstler Questions.

I don't know what to ask him myself. I don't really find his tone useful.. while he does get a lot of attention with it. There's something to be said for that, I guess.

I've heard him say he lives in, if not suburbia, then a populated area. Aside from his writing, what does he do to get his household AND his community more prepared for what might be coming?

Good luck with the interview.
Many Thanks for your efforts to get the word out.

Bob

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