Excuse me, I never get into pissing matches. It's all about the quality of the analysis provided. All other issues are handled offlist. I do absolutely think that t humor, criticism, sarcastic remarks are not out of place here, and that we shouldn't be so ridiculously thin-skinned about those when they come our way, and start crying "no-fair." It reminds me of nothing so much as of a child crying out to his/her mother "Mommy, he hit me."
But that certainly is not my decision, nor the issue at hand. I think the oil issue is critically important as it is the central issue used to displace the decline of living standards, wage rates, etc. onto a "natural condition," thus making austerity an asocial inevitability instead of an instrument of class domination. Am I the only one old enough to remember these same depletion arguments, and capital shortage arguments regarding oil and the oil industry after OPEC 1 in 1973? If M. King Hubbert were alive he might remember it since he predicted the "peak" of international oil production taking place in the mid 1980s. Anyway that's my 5th post. I have used up my ration for the day. A bientot, dms
