Horse dung up to our ears
Posted by Big Gav
The Herald's WebDiary has a cornucopian follow up post to their earlier peak oil article called Horse dung up to our ears. It is yet another example of what Colin Campbell calls "flat earth economics" - the author (an ex Shell PR man) spouts all the usual arguments about when you start running out of a resource another one will magically appear to take its place or technology will magically increase in efficiency to provide expanding quantities of energy from a dwindling supply base. His argument seems to revolve around horse dung in London once being a problem but that no longer being the case - ipso facto - peak oil isn't a problem.
As commenter Darren Urquhart said:
We were somewhere around Byron on the edge of the beach when the exhuast vapours began to take hold. I remember saying something like “we’re out of oil, we’re gonna crash”. And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around and a voice screaming “Horse shit! Science will protect you.”
Local abiotic oil nut Louis Hissink makes a brief appearance to say even technology isn't relevant - oil supply is infinite (to which one poster quoted a Rockefeller - "If the earth was made of oil, the supply of it would be finite").
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