The Oil Drum

Eliot Spitzer's historic fall from grace was a blow to many progressives who believed that he would reform New York's dysfunctional state government, but his replacement may be equally transformative, but from a Peak Oil perspective.

David Paterson will be the nation's first legally blind Governor and only the fourth African American governor (New York's first)since Reconstruction ended. As I wrote back in 2006, Lieutenant Governor David Paterson is not only peak oil aware, but willing to make public speeches about it and fairly eloquent on explaining peak oil to ordinary folks.

Eliot Spitzer's campaign is now pretty much running victory laps around the state with polls showing he will be sweeping into New York's powerful governor's chair with a huge mandate for change. I've written before about Spitzer's views on energy, transportation and the environment as well as his favoring closure of the Indian Point Nuclear plant. What hasn't been talked about in the press much is that Spitzer's running mate, David Paterson has talked openly about peak oil in a speech delivered in May that mentions a certain Shell geologist...