Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Peak Oil and a Brick Wall

Commentary By Ron Beasley


I was talking to someone I know a few days ago who has worked in the exploration division of one of the major oil companies for over 20 years.  She said that they all felt that peak oil had arrived about two years ago and that most of their exploration dollars were being spent to find natural gas. As a result I was very surprised to see a peak oil denier on the pages of the New York Times this morning.  Michael Lynch sounds just like the global warming deniers when he says Peak Oil Is a Waste of Energy.  Like the global warming deniers he simply dismisses science and nothing he says is worth quoting. 


Now peak oil may be more important than anything else we discuss here because when it arrives it will be like running into a brick wall.  I thought I knew about peak oil but I didn't know the half of it.  The following video from Chris Martenson explains peak oil and how it relates to peak discovery.  It's over 17 minutes long but well worth watching. (h/t theblogprof)




Peak oil is not as important as the point when demand exceeds supply. That's the real brick wall and it will happen soon and happen fast. It won't be just the price of gasoline. It takes a 15 barrels or more of oil to produce and transport the food for just one person to give you one example.The sudden price hike will damage the economy but the unavailability of oil will be devastating.


Update


Not even the Wall Street Journal is buying Lynch's nonsense.



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  1. MagginkatAugust 25, 2009 at 10:59 AM

    On several occasions I have read about the U.S. exporting oil. Why are we exporting oil if we are having to beg to get it from the Saudi's, etc.?

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  2. Ron BeasleyAugust 25, 2009 at 4:25 PM

    Thanks Kirkrrt
    Martenson discusses Mexico and says while their production is going down their consumption is going up. By 2011 the two lines will cross and Mexico will no longer be an exporter.

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