sartesian wrote: > > There is no argument about the destruction and brutality, the poverty, > produced in the extraction of the commodity of oil. Actually, I think > it's the industrial capitalist equivalent of the plantation sugarcane > economy. > > I don't know, however, what that has to do with peak oil, or at least > peak oil as described by Hubbert. > > We've been around this block many times before, on Pen-L and other > lists. Back and forth, up and down, to and fro, the bottom line is that > the assertions of the peak theorists have not been confirmed by actual > performance characteristics.
And worse -- it doesn't make any difference. I have never, _once_, seen a hint of a suggestion by peak-oil freaks of how the view can be embodied in actual political practice. My own view is that those who push the peak-oil thesis are actually quite frightened of doing any actual political work and are desperately looking around for a quick fix which will take us to heaven without any effort. Even if the peak oil thesis is true it has no political relevance. Carrol
