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By CuriousFellow (anonymous) | Posted May 05, 2010 at 07:30:48

Yes, Jasonaallen, I’ll give you your due. Small changes in steps can make a difference, like your example of the French Revolution (without qualification whether it was a good change or not); however, your drift-off is seen in your examples. How did those small steps, small number of people do it in France, Russia, etc? By ideology---an overriding and powerful story of where we are and need to go that touched something. It was a REASON whereas rising gas prices are just a motive, which, by the way, can and will be interpreted by different people in different ways. “Gas is so high because those green hippies would not let us develop the oil resources we need.” or “Government regulation blunted the natural market mechanism” or even “This is God’s punishment for the US loosing its way.”

Do you think a website of numbers and charts, re-hashing the same strength of Peak Oil will convince 99% of American, who don’t know what the hell it is anyway? My point is that Peak-oilers will need more to get outside this echo chamber to set down a rational way to respond to the incentive of future rising oil prices. I mean, I’ve heard the arguments for and against Peak Oil. I favor Hubbert, if not for any reason other than as a the smart contingency. Peak-oilers need to ask them selves how Peak Oil fits into the greater scheme of things, socially, politically, economically and find better REASONS than Permaculture, which will strike some as pantheism and others as communism. Seriously, how would you tell the guy, who can’t wait to buy an I-Pad or “Pimp” his gas-guzzler that growing his own food and re-using his plastic bottles were what he was supposed to have been doing all the time? He’s going to be angry, the question is who and what should he be angry at?

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