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70 comments on Can Acts of God and Bush Explain the Plateau?

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BabyPeanut on January 4, 2006 - 8:06am

Peaksters can get excited all they want watching the mid 2005 plateau and read into it what they want but the rest of us know it was hurricane and refinery related...

Don't refineries have more accidents when the cokers become corroded due to an increase in contaminants in crude as light crude runs out leading to an increase in heavy crude?

Aren't the hurricanes and typhoons due to increased greenhouse effect from China's increased industrial base from US outsourcing that started in the 1980's as US oil peaked?

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Leanan on January 5, 2006 - 4:54pm

I don't think we can say that the hurricanes are absolutely due to global warming yet, but it's certainly possible.

In any case, you raise good points. Many of the factors mentioned are depletion related, tangentially anyway. Why are we in Iraq? Not to free the Iraqi people, that's for sure.

And we can surely expect war and unrest to increase as the effects of depletion spread.