I’d agree those modern economics are to blame, Keynes more specifically, being employed relatively easily nowadays.

Well every issue has its lunatic fringe. It’s a shame if Mr Roberts has consistently found himself rattling the cage of peak oil’s flakier elements. In my experience, most of those concerned about peak oil are quite like me – professionals with families. We read extensively across a wide spectrum of sources, from the oil and gas industry, general news, politics, economics and of course the likes of Heinberg, Campbell, Ruppert, Aklett and others at ASPO, The Oil Drum, etc.

Many of us have invested thousands of hours reading up on money theory, physics, chemistry, economics, international politics, globalisation, and so on, to provide ourselves with adequate context for making our own judgements on peak oil.

There is now a considerable and growing body of literature on peak oil, produced by the likes of Germany’s Energy Watch Group, Britain’s respected Chatham House policy think tank and a dozen others. ‘Collapse’ is a very important step in raising awareness of the whole “where next?” question facing fossil-fuel-powered industrial civilisation.

But it is nonsense to suggest that ‘Collapse’ represents the point where peak oil (better stated as peak net energy) crosses the Rubicon from being an issue entirely dominated by malign ‘truth nuts’ to one that sensible people can talk freely about over dinner.

Thanks for this post; my the best come to Mr. Ruppert.

Love “Light” and Energy

_Don

To the poster who cites nuclear fuels, the main problem there is that we mine those materials with extensive use of oil. The main problem with food isn’t delivery, it’s the fact that our mechanized food production is soaked in oil. Ruppert cites this article he published in FTW: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/100303_eating_oil.html
wherein Dale Allen Pfeiffer reports that 10 calories of fossil fuels are required to grow one calorie of food.

I haven’t seen the movie yet and can’t wait till it comes out on PPV.

You can draw a direct link to the creation of Al Qaeda and many other terrorist organizations and the funds from BCCI to Al Qaeda one of many references below:

http://www.larouchepub.com/other/1995/2241_bcci.html

So Zachary Roberts to pass off the entire scope of peak oil is an insult to the world and humanity as a whole. Iraq and Iran’s oil has been the most treasured sacred reserve for many decades. Zachary Roberts if you go to the Bush presidential libraries or the Clinton presidential library you witness first hand what this fucking blood money will buy.

Article from TPR below:

Fear of Iran is a key factor in Riyadh stepping up its military campaign against the Houthi rebels.

By Caryle Murphy – GlobalPost
Published: November 14, 2009
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia’s ongoing military offensive against rebels in neighboring Yemen — the first time its armed forces have gone into combat in almost 20 years — underscores Riyadh’s deep concern about Yemen’s crumbling internal stability, and the possibility that Iran will exploit the turmoil to spread its influence.

The Saudis’ sustained air-and-ground offensive against the rebels, known as Houthis, is also raising questions about Saudi objectives and how they will extricate their forces from what is a messy and volatile internal struggle in an increasingly dysfunctional state.

“It is hard to know what the Saudis intend to achieve in terms of specific military objectives,” Kristian Ulrichsen, Kuwait Research Fellow at the London School of Economics, wrote in an e-mail. They “would be well-advised” not to get involved in what “is rapidly becoming a failed state” in Yemen.