Well gosh, you act like the messages we're receiving through the media support the idea that Peak Oil is in fact going to be a crisis. We all know that's not the case. Those of us who want to learn about the possible consequences of Peak Oil have to dig to find it.hippiewannabe wrote: Anyway, you should all take a deep breath, and step away from the Hollywood-Democrat-media misery machine. Look at the broader vertical scope of world history, and the horizontal scope of the world today. This is as good as it gets. We have the luxury of debating the details in a nice warm shelter, with full bellies. For 99.9% of human existence, it's been a struggle just to survive.
Right now, it isn't discussed in the mainstream, and so the message doesn't even reach more than perhaps 10% of the American populace, a fraction of which actually pay attention to the message. You seem to be saying that this populace (who don't see Peak Oil as a problem or even a remote threat) won't be absolutely up-in-arms when the government/market artificially imposes price/tax increases in anticipation of a rocky future. I've noticed that people don't stop clutching their dollars until the blade actually comes into contact with their necks. Until that point, they will explain away the blade as a figment of the Liberal Imagination.
We may see a tax imposed that will stave off the consequences of Peak Oil, but most certainly that won't happen at any point before the mainstream media report/discuss what the true dangers and threat of Peak Oil might look like. We have to get there first, with open and honest dialog. Painting a rosy picture of what some economists think Peak Oil may end up looking like isn't any more helpful than painting the dreary, hopeless picture that many other experts would predict.