tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post6111836750512802708..comments2024-03-16T08:04:53.086-05:00Comments on Dredd Blog: The Peak Of The Oil Wars - 2Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-90848702292477187862018-06-27T07:47:29.585-05:002018-06-27T07:47:29.585-05:00"The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting ..."The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC, /ˈoʊpɛk/ OH-pek, or OPEP in several other languages) is an intergovernmental organization of 15 nations, founded in 1960 in Baghdad by the first five members (Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela), and headquartered since 1965 in Vienna, Austria." (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEC" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a>)Dreddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14629960642482064127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-22044830812144734262010-09-06T17:52:12.612-05:002010-09-06T17:52:12.612-05:00Gentlemen,
The only sure thing in this "life...Gentlemen,<br /><br />The only sure thing in this "life" is taxation and death, according to <i>das kapitalists</i>.<br /><br />Either one of them brings the other, and both are leaches upon the greater good.<br /><br />When we call wisdom, common sense, and vision "taxes" we go the way of the extortionist governments, those who die an improvident death, after "living" an unfortunate "life".<br /><br />Need I list the empires of old or the current empire fast growing "old" to illustrate that point?<br /><br />Taxes are a necessary evil because they end up being our gift to those in need, as it must be, but they are not a substitute for wisdom, vision, or integrity.<br /><br />The military always have the greatest need, the needs of the poor are wee by comparison.<br /> <br />ALAS! you are so sadly wrong my friends, because you would wee the people.Dreddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15673418865926403671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-54588428794508756822010-09-06T15:49:58.823-05:002010-09-06T15:49:58.823-05:00Wow, taz, how old are you now? 156??
No matter. ...Wow, taz, how old are you now? 156?? <br /><br />No matter. I agree absolutely that the use of appropriate taxation is a most effective way to accomplish policy objectives.<br /><br />Art.The Arthurianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16501331051089400601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-48631926474580925452010-09-06T11:51:46.609-05:002010-09-06T11:51:46.609-05:00in 1873, we got the first 'oil crisis' whe...in 1873, we got the first 'oil crisis' when OPEC almost tripled our cheap-then prices. i was 19 at the time and wrote a school paper on it with a simple solution: a 10¢ a gallon tax and $500-1000 tax on all new vehicles... for intensive funding of alternative energy and transit. this was of course ridiculed as 'taking too long and we have to stick with the tried and true.' and here we are 37 years later with the same idiots voices saying the same old things...tazdelaneyhttp://home.roadrunner.com/~madlaney/taz/spell1.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-37492700581079529302010-09-04T09:47:18.230-05:002010-09-04T09:47:18.230-05:00Randy,
A blog orchestrated by oilfield experts (T...Randy,<br /><br />A blog orchestrated by oilfield experts (<a href="http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6912" rel="nofollow">The Oil Drum</a>), also considers the German report to be worthy of note.<br /><br />They even translated some of the report into English.Dreddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15673418865926403671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-88759378800563531092010-09-04T09:22:34.733-05:002010-09-04T09:22:34.733-05:00I notice that this post links to an earlier post t...I notice that this post links to an earlier post that quotes a report by <i>Lloyds of London</i> and <i>The Chatham House</i> which came to the same conclusion that the German report did. <br /><br />I think <i>Lloyds of London</i> has been known to insure ventures of ingenuity when other insurance companies would not.<br /><br />The German report is quoted on the <a href="http://www.peakoil.net" rel="nofollow">Peak Oil Blog</a> as well.Randyhttp://www.peakoil.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-4815214909418830912010-09-04T08:14:53.149-05:002010-09-04T08:14:53.149-05:00Art,
"Gee, the German government has little ...Art,<br /><br />"<i>Gee, the German government has little faith in free markets and human ingenuity</i>."<br /><br />Irrelevant to the issue of peak oil, and also an absurd notion. The US took their rocket scientists like von Braun captive @WWII to come here and build what we could not. They have ingenuity. They were the top exporter in the world until recently when China took over first place. They export engineering creations primarily.<br /><br />"<i>the notion of "peak oil" first surfaced, in my experience, in the 1970s</i>"<br /><br />It is not a "notion" and your numbers are off two decades at least. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._King_Hubbert" rel="nofollow">Hubbert advanced the hypotheses</a> in the 50's when he predicted US peak oil would happen circa 1970. When it happened it gave his hypothesis theoretical strength. He is to peak oil what Einstein (a German) is to relativity.<br /><br />Scientists overwhelmingly cite oil usage as the prime contributing factor to global warming / global climate change.<br /><br />The eventual effects of using that material instead of clean renewable energy will have the most profound effects on economy that civilization has ever seen.Dreddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15673418865926403671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-55525609868958988072010-09-03T17:14:06.632-05:002010-09-03T17:14:06.632-05:00Hey, Dredd. Gee, the German government has little ...Hey, Dredd. Gee, the German government has little faith in free markets and human ingenuity.<br /><br />It didn't have the catchy name at the time, but the notion of "peak oil" first surfaced, in my experience, in the 1970s. <br /><br />The concept is undeniable, we have to run out of oil eventually... But problems with oil seem always to be associated with problems in the economy. And it is not clear to me that oil causes the economic problems. Oil may simply be in the catbird seat: At the first hint of economic problems, oil prices skyrocket <i>because they can</i> and that just makes the economic problems worse.<br /><br />Maybe this scenario is not right. But I am not comfortable with the <i>assumption</i> that oil is the underlying cause. The economy is in bad shape, even when oil is behaving itself.<br /><br />Your remarks brought to mind the old Robert Redford movie <i>Three Days of the Condor</i><br /><br />ArtThe Arthurianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16501331051089400601noreply@blogger.com