peak oil news

In the middle of 2007 the hasn’t been very much peak oil news, to be honest there hasn’t been any

Peak oil news waxes and wanes with whatever is in vogue taking the headlines. There was a time back in 2005 when peak oil news was king, but that didn’t last long. Along came Al Gore and his Inconvenient Truth and the whole world followed him like some sort of long lost prophet, who

So peak oil was forgotten and the peak oil myth raised its ugly head once again. 

Even with oil over $80 a barrel there is not a whisper about peak oil in the news. So what will it take to put peak oil back in the news. Some catastrophic event, I hope not, that is what I dread. If the Saudi oil fields were nuked tomorrow, that would be the end of western civilization as we know it. Even hurricanes that destroy oil wells and shut off the oil supply are referred to as global warming and there is nothing about peak oil in the news. 

The media says the hurricanes are to blame for the spike in oil prices not the fact that we are running out of oil. 

The news media keeps a tight lid on what they want us to know about, and peak oil is definitely not on the top of their list. So we blindly go to the end of western civilization without a care in the world, but that will change very soon. Then the news media will still not talk about peak oil. The stories in the news will be about unemployment, the depression and all the bad things happening in the world. But no one will relate the news stories to peak oil until it is too late. 

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