Prof. Goose

Top energy stories of 2006

50 important stories from The Oil Drum – the most prolific source of peak oil analysis on the Web.

December 31, 2006

A picture worth more than 1000 words

Supply of Oil vs the Demand for Oil.

August 12, 2005

The Denial of Peak Oil

In the case of peak oil, we can intellectually accept the evidence, but we find it extremely hard to accept individual or collective responsibility for a problem of such enormity. Indeed, the most powerful evidence of our denial is the failure to even recognize that there is a moral dimension with identifiable perpetrators and victims of the crisis. We know who is at fault here, we see what they are trying to do, and we lack the efficacy and the will to do anything about it.

July 31, 2005

Society

Denial: sadly, it truly isn’t just a river in Egypt

Americans are at various stages of awareness and acceptance of our addiction to oil. Viewed from afar, the range of public attitudes seems remarkably similar to the five stages of grief famously described by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, or acceptance.

June 20, 2005

Raise Gas Taxes NOW…(or, Justifying Demand Destruction)

The real conundrum, in my opinion, is how to destroy demand so as to come in for a soft landing, even if we are heading towards a 1979 to the googol. …
I advocate taxing gasoline now. Abruptly. Quickly. Severely. Better to bend the shit out of the economy now than completely break it later. …

June 19, 2005

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