Oil, or "When I heard it was for awareness, that sealed the deal . . ."

I don't have much to say on the topic of oil, oil production, or world oil supply, but since it was mentioned in my last post, and since my blog is already waxing liberal, I might as well provide a little bit of cud to chew. Here's one article on a recent meeting of oily minds re: "The End of Easy Oil":

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11119213/site/newsweek/

This, I'd say, is pretty accurate-to-overly-optimistic, since it's mainly based on quotes from the oil companies and their cohorts.

On the other side of the spectrum, here's a bit of info on catastrophe scenarios predicted by some scientists or other scholars. First, a Wikipedia article about "The Long Emergency," a book which predicts that the end of easy oil is basically the end of life as we know it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Emergency

and another on the Olduvai Theory, which predicts that the industrial civilization will have a lifetime of less than a century:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peak_Of_World_Oil_Production
_And_The_Road_To_The_Olduvai_Gorge

The Olduvai Cliff Stuff doesn't seem to be totally supported by the data (for example, so far the period from 2000 to 2011, whatever it has been, hasn't resembled the Great Depression, at least not for America). But it is interesting. So, "happy" reading.