As Jerome pointed out recently, sooner or later the MSM gets around to publishing the stuff that has been on blogs for months (or years). From our top five paper:

Declining net oil exports will inevitably result, absent a severe decline in demand in importing countries, in continued rapid increases in oil prices, as oil importing countries furiously bid against each other for declining oil exports.

In simplest terms, we are concerned that the very lifeblood of the world industrial economy—net oil export capacity—is draining away in front of our very eyes, and we believe that it is imperative that major oil importing countries like the United States launch an emergency Electrification of Transportation program--electric light rail and streetcars--combined with a crash wind power program.

As Alan Drake has pointed out, the United States--with roughly 1/3rd its current population, 1/25th of its current inflation adjusted GDP and with primitive Technology --built subways in its largest cities and streetcars in 500 cities, towns and villages in just 20 years (1897-1916), which does not even take into account numerous interurban systems.

If we could do it in 1908 with mules, manual labor and with minimal fossil fuel input, why can't we do it 2008?

Two top 10 net oil exporters and two top sources of imported oil to the US, Venezuela & Mexico, from 10/07 to 3/08 showed sharply lower net oil exports to the US--with their net oil exports to the US declining at an annual rate of 32%/year.

Have you tried contacting him?

curtis I mean?

Boris
London