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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

On other fora I engage in the 'Peak Oil' discussions.  I am a persuaded  
peakist, that is, I could be persuaded otherwise if there were enough 
evidence.  
It's not an idle armchair speculative subject.  If the phenomenon is real, it 
will radically change our way of life (which, as I would opine, it is 
currently 
doing).

So I run into news factoids like this:   http://tinyurl.com/6hfhlk

There has been a giant oil deposit discovered off the coast of Brazil and so 
Peak Oil has been debunked, there will be plenty, plenty for decades to come. 
 
See, we are STILL finding h-u-g-e oil reserves.  I even heard this newsinoid 
mentioned on Paul Harvey with a resounding, Carl Sagan-like, b'billions of 
barrels of oil.

Digging a little deeper one finds this:   http://tinyurl.com/5rzfdz

There IS no huge oil find.  And moreover, if there WERE a huge find, if the 
oil deposit turned out to be as large as has been fantasized and we had 
access 
to it immediately and all to ourselves, that is, if the Brazilians said, 
"Here 
you go, USA, you are such nice guys, take it all, nao e problema!"  ... how 
long would it last us?  Fifty years!  Twenty years!   Surely ten years.   No. 
 
33 billion barrels of oil would meet our current rate of consumption for 
scarcely three years.

IF it existed, which is very much in question.


Yet .... yet the story takes on a life of its own and gets frequently quoted 
.... "Say, didn't you know, they've discovered such a big oil field off the 
coast of Brazil that we will have plentious oil for decades and decades.

So no one addresses the problem that is heading our way, nor any of the real 
problems heading our way.  
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