Reply #17: Peak oil is simply [View All]

[drduffy]

the top of the bell curve. Demand has, in fact, exceeded capacity for a couple of months now. Irrespective of Katrina. And yes, refineries did get damaged and about 20 oil rigs disabled or disappeared (and each had several wells so flow is way down, obviously). But Katrina just brought home the reality of oil issues but is really separable from the isse of peak oil per se. The powers that be have realized this for a while. It's why we are in the middle east. It's why we play chicken with Hugo Chavez. It's why China makes deals for oil with Venezeula and Canada and various African nations. It is why everything is going to go to shit.... if not global war then at least back to 1910 life style here. And this isn't even counting the issue of the green revolution, its dependence upon oil and nat gas based fertilizers.... so if no fertilizer (or not much) then think..... 2-4 billion people starving. The ground will simply not yield the necessary amount of food without fertizers.

Everything will change.

look at the data. : http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

just one of many many sites devoted to this issue. Take a look at Yellow Springs, Ohio (home of Antioch College) and what they have done/are doing to prepare for what they quite rightly realize is the end of the current style of living in America.
http://www.communitysolution.org/

just get informed. Denial ain't gonna save you. Imagining this is some sort of plot is simply idiocy.