Quote from: K-Dog on Feb 05, 2024, 11:40 PM

Quote from: TDoS on Feb 05, 2024, 05:15 PMI say we harken back to the good ol' days of peak oil. Far more names in this video than just one source, making far more interesting claims, why don't we just edit all the dates on this video and start puttig it out there again?

Because it has James Howard Kunstler in it and Kunstler kicks dogs.  Specifically me. 

Well, sounds unfortunate. Sounds like a good reason to not like the little weasel. I always thought Kuntsler (sic) was just a gadfly tool type, run of the mill Y2K doomer who went fishing for more notoriety after his technical ignorance in computer land was revealed, and went for something more...opaque.

Quote from: K-DogThat video started a chain of events that highlighted (from my point of view) with me being gang stalked by the FBI and other homeland security agents because  I compromised the operational security of a troll farm run on Kunstlers website with his permission. 

So Kuntsler was fronting a troll farm with all his idiot nonsense on Y2K and peak oil? Would you have any reason why the FBI would front someone generally foolish and easily dismissed, rather than someone useful to clicks and popularity and whatnot, like whomever the Taylor Swift of the day might have been? Michael "Jesus Juice" Jackson?

Quote from: K-DogI bought the video after I saw it at a Capital Hill Showing in Seattle.  A small theatre on 11th avenue.  The group discussion after the video was disrupted by an agent provocateur who wanted to sell leather kilts.  'Because the real reason for the worlds problem is the boys don't swing and get enough air'.

Agent provacateur? Or a peak oiler trying to make some coin on the side, selling prepping gear for those who fell for the theme it was trying to sell?

Quote from: K-DogThat video changed my life.  It still does.

I caught it only after Matt Savinar began hawking it, either on peakoil.com or his original website. Certainly in the moment it had to be taken seriously.

Quote from: K-DogTwo minutes in, she says everything but PAST PEAK.

Well, she is exactly right. Today. Global peak oil was 6 years ago now. Don't know about you but gasoline is $2.30/gal locally, you can buy it by the tanker truck load if you've got vehicles to use it all, and cosidering peak oil consequences were supposed to arrive within weeks/months.

If $2.30 gallon is what peak oil looks like 6 years in...well....I've got bigger things to worry about. Federal deficit, government borrowing, homelessness showing up locally and spreading, including on the local rail service, etc etc.

Global peak oil circa 1979 went 15 years, everyone who claimed it was in the past for those 15 years was completely correct. And then...one day...as RE said...the original conditions changed and presto! Another peak oil dispatched by more oil.