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PEAK OIL THEORY 
 AS EXPLAINED BY www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net 
 
Issue # 80 - June 2006Reader's comments Print this article 
THE END IS NIGH! Yeah right. We’ve been hearing that forecast since the first caveman saw ashooting star streak across the sky at midnight.The Internet is full of thrilling theories predicting the imminent demise of our planet. Here’s a sitewith an amusing collection of apocalyptic prophecies worth visiting -www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/9941.All manner of prophets, doomsday cults and apocalyptic Bibleprophecy sects are warning of The End. The sun could collapse into ablack hole and the earth get sucked in along with it. We could allfreeze to death in a nuclear winter or a stray comet might crash intothe earth to ensure we shuffle off our mortal coil.Then we have the god-botherers, always nagging on about the endbeing near because our planet is full of spiritually filthy people and thepure are about to be whisked away in The Rapture. Bring it on, I say.We’re overpopulated as it is.As for Y2K, come on, you know you bought that long-life milk, just incase.
 
But, as I casually cruised the apocalyptic prediction sites, somethingstopped me rudely in my tracks: Peak Oil theory, as explained atwww.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net. (Please be warned: When entering, ensure you have a double Scotchor other suitable tranquiliser handy.) “CIVILISATION AS WE know it is coming to an end soon … it is the scientific conclusion of the bestpaid, most widely-respected geologists, physicists and investment bankers in the world. These arerational, professional, conservative individuals who are absolutely terrified by a phenomenonknown as global ‘Peak Oil’”, says Matt Savinar, author of the site.Apparently it doesn’t matter that we have 40 years of the stuff left. The theory of Peak Oil is thatoil production follows a bell curve. Once we hit the top of the curve and start our downward slide,production decreases year by year, even as demand for crude increases.Worldwide, demand will outpace production … permanently.
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