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Where did you learn it?
Submitted by Nick Guetti on December 30, 2007 - 11:33am.
Survey time!
Hi, folks. I've become interested in the answer to a couple of questions I consider relevant to the peak oil issue:
1) When (what year or, if you can remember that precisely, what month and year) did you first learn about peak oil being an important issue for popular focus?
2) Through what media (word of mouth, book, movie, news article, etc.) was it presented to you at that time? If there was a combination, please be specific about this, i.e. if someone TOLD you about a movie that you then went to go see, then the answer would be "movie". On the other hand, if you are a geologist or other kind of scientist and you somehow have first-hand knowledge of peak oil, you could talk about that too, in layman's terms please.
My intention is to do some research into the background of interest in peak oil as a socio-political phenomenon. What I produce at the conclusion of this research will be about that rather than about peak oil itself. I appreciate all your help.
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Early 2003 and lifeaftertheoilcrash.net
I knew the situation with oil was bad, but after stumbling upon "life after the oil crash".net, peak oil changed the course of basically every aspect of my life.
Early 2002, fromthewilderness.com
Hi everyone,
It was right after 9/11, early 2002. I was mildly fascinated by Mike Ruperts' site, which at that time primarily focused on the CIA and illegal drugs. However, Rupert had started to cover Peak Oil just prior to 9/11.
I later researched Michael Rupert for a project I did for an upper-level college class, discovering through multiple sources that he wasn't all he said he was. However, credit is due him for 'Crossing the Rubicon', as well as making many people (including myself) aware of the Peak Oil phenomenon. He also had a very good run for several years with his predictive analysis, even if he was simply a researcher-researching-other-researchers.
Since then, peak oil has been an obsession, since nothing else really matters right now with our civilization. Besides, I think it's really cool being hooked-up with a group of extremely far-looking people whose predictive analysis so far has batted 1000. It reminds me of the movie '12 Monkeys', with us within PPO knowing exactly what will happen in the near future (minus the actual time travel, of course).
Jerry Erwin