The Myth of the Oil Crisis: Overcoming the Challenges of Depletion, Geopolitics, and Global Warming
The Myth of the Oil Crisis: Overcoming the Challenges of Depletion, Geopolitics, and Global Warming – Review
I confess, I’m a fully recovered peak oiler. I newly discovered the peakers in 2002 and was quickly drawn into their apocalyptic world of gloom and disaster. Soon after indoctrination, I deeply felt the euphoric rush that comes with being element of a group that has access to “secret” information all the other morons out there are blissfully ignorant of. Like most peakers, I enjoyed effectively giving self-righteous lectures about the end of new society to my SUV-driving friends. Eventually though, the stiff peak oil spiritual doctrine originated to bother me. Like other doomsayers, they originally appeared to cherry select any data that supported their cause, while totally ignoring any information that strongly suggested otherwise. New oil and gas discoveries were widely decried as “meaningless”. Any original production technology was brutally bashed with the opinion “it’ll never work”. Reserves estimates were part of “an global government and industry conspiracy”. Those who openly disagreed with their views, I commonly observed, where ridiculed and eventually dismissed as intellectual midgets and “flat earthers”. After a while, all that zealotry and hypocrisy became to me, and I vowed to widely read every piece of information I could find on energy, not just what was first sanctioned by the high pastors of the peak oil church. It eventually took me a while, but I usually kept an honest mind, educated myself, and at last finally broke free of the cult. The Myth of the Oil Crisis does a very good job in briefly summarizing the holes in the peakers’dogma – If it had been available a few years ago, my de-programming would have taken place much sooner. If your hopes for the future are being privately held hostage by worries about currently running out of oil, I suggest that you start your detox program with this book. Give it a try. You just might change your mind about eventually buying that assault rifle and cabin in the Idaho mountains.