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BoneKracker
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| pitcrawler wrote: | | pjp wrote: | | Most of the conservative talking heads I've listened to specifically say to do your own research, don't take my word for it, etc. Regularly. So I guess I don't know what you're referring to there. |
I've been listening to them for the past few months and I haven't heard any of this. Half the time they don't even give you a clue of where to look for evidence of their rants and incessant rambling.
| pjp wrote: | | For the period I listened to some programs on Al Gore's Radio Network, I never once heard similar comments. On NPR, I've never heard it said a single time. On the major networks (other than Fox), I've have no recollection of hearing that sentiment. Certainly not "recently" (given that they have been around longer htan I've been alive, it is possible I don't recall it). |
I guess I'll have to take your word for it on this one.
| pjp wrote: | | As for peak oil, the issue isn't that we will run out some day. The issue is the over reaction that "we're going to die tomorrow" as a result. |
No one's over-reacting like that. The part in bold is alarmism from yourself. |
mcgruff is. He wants to "stop burning carbon now", and apparently means that quite literally. 
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pjp
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:30 am Post subject: |
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| pitcrawler wrote: | | No one's over-reacting like that. The part in bold is alarmism from yourself. |
I provided a link earlier indicating indeed they are. Peak Oil is exactly that. It isn't a theoretical "some day" it is used as a tool to scare people now, not 50 years from now.
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big dave
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| i would rather be grostequely corpulent living on the spaceship of a monolithic corporation than a starving prisoner enslaved at gunpoint by a government. |
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