You are the one who is delusional. World energy supply, over the last 100 years, increased at about 2 percent per year. World GDP, over the last 100 years, increased at about 2 percent per year. Get the connection?

World oil supply stopped growing in 2005 and prices spiked. These two factors combined drove us into a recession. We will pull out of this recession when the world oil supply starts growing again. That is not likely to happen...ever.

Crude oil has been on a plateau since 2005. We are at peak oil right now, or was a few months ago. You should understand that simple fact and you might not post so much foolish crap in the future. Of course peak oil is only part of the story. To get the whole story take Chris Martenson's crash course.

Ron Patterson

Hey JD,

Peak Oil is a geological reality, as recognized by U.S. National Academy of Sciences, U.S. National Academy of Engineering, U.S. General Accountability Office, U.S. Congressional Research Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the National Petroleum Council, and no scientific source says otherwise.

Denying Peak Oil is like saying the earth is flat. :)

Garrison Keillor says that in this country you are free to express yourself anyway you wish, including walking down Main Street twirling your underwear at the end of a stick. :) He means of course, that your are free to make an ass out of yourself in public, if you so choose.

The reason oil dropped so fast is that our "brilliant" leaders ran the international economy into the ground.

But oil prices will go back up, soon.

Hey, your heard it here first :)

JD, put that stick down.

Cliff Wirth

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