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Why, is this the same Jad Mouawad that did a hatchet piece on peak oil in the NYT last year?
Why yes, yes it is. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/05/business/05oil1.html?pagewanted=print
I laughed at the time because it was so ridiculous a premise; Jad took a hard look at steam injection in aging CA oil fields, extensively quoted Yergin, and painted the impression that peak oil is but a recurring fantasy of a bunch of Cassandras.
But he did cite the evidence that a formerly 200kbpd field had been resuscitated to the point of being a 85kbpd field so, uh, therefore, er, technology wins! Cassandras lose! Ha ha!
At any rate, I lost all respect for him then and he'll have to earn it back one small piece at a time. And that goes for his lying rag of a newspaper that sold us the Treasury busting Iraq war and has yet to properly apologize.
Perhaps they won't. Seems they are too busy trying to start the next one.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/world/middleeast/26military.html?_r=1&...
Hey come on - Dick Cheney and some anonymous intelligence and administration officials have told them there is a threat.
The fact that it can't be quantified is neither here nor there - we must wage war on Iran before it is too late - just imagine what would have happened if Saddam's drone planes had managed to land some of his chemical and nuclear weapons on downtown Oklahama City - you can be sure Iranian weapons are even more tangible and dangerous !
Plus they've got oil and rather a lot of gas, which they keep trying to sell to India and Japan, without any American involvement...
Yeah, Mouawad has been such a dewy-eyed slurper of energy-industry pap that it's been hard even to think of him as a "peak-oil skeptic" -- there's something too hard-nosed about the term "skeptic" to make it stick to his usual unresisting imbecility. And yet, he's now had two or three solid stories in a row in the NYTimes about oil. Something woke him up, I guess.