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Leanan on November 12, 2009 - 10:18am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I think there may be a connection, but it's not the one they think. Rock is baby boomer music. And it may not be a coincidence that the largest, wealthiest generation in the US has lived roughly parallel with the age of oil.

However, I think that graph is probably not good for the peak oil cause. People are going to look at it and think, "Well, we'll never be short of music. All it takes is human creativity." And they'll assume that applies to oil as well.

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RalphW on November 12, 2009 - 10:25am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I would bet that the music data has a better correlation with the age demographic of Rolling Stone's readership than with oil production - offset by about 15 years.

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elwoodelmore on November 12, 2009 - 5:38pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

"Well, we'll never be short of music. All it takes is human creativity."

indeed, there was an item on here a few months ago claiming(literally) that: "oil is found in the minds of men"

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