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Submitted by Joe T., Mar 19, 2008 20:43

The Peak Oil theory is absolutely real. The problem is that Kunstler is indeed a crank and is engaged in wish-fulfillment. He predicts modern civilization will end for romantic reasons -- because he doesn't like it. He has no faith in human ingenuity to engineer workarounds and says "there will be no hydrogen economy". Kunstler is a good writer and likes to pontificate about global economics like he had a Ph.D in it, but he's still a cloying, nihilistic theater major with an annoying Manhattan lisp. Maybe his hatred for all things modern is the kind of schadenfreud comes from being a single, artistic loner, who by his own admission, didn't earn more than $15,000 a year until he was 40.

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The Peak Oil theory is absolutely real. The problem is that Kunstler is indeed a crank and is engaged in...	Joe T.	Mar 19, 2008 20:43
If you really thing peak oil is a half baked farce, or anything even close to that, then here is... [MORE]	Iconoclast421	Mar 6, 2008 10:41
That's the meanest positive review I've ever gotten. Thank you very much and go give yourself a hot beef injection,... [MORE]	James Howard Kunstler	Mar 5, 2008 11:57
Hey, lay off the conservative economic dogma will ya? Being in a ice storm here in Vermont, I can attest... [MORE]	datadave	Mar 5, 2008 23:27
For those that can survive.......good food, music, alcohol, toil, bonking, [MORE]	Sydney Street	Mar 9, 2008 07:59
I was introduced to Jim Kunstler by an old friend. He is a great writer and is trying to wake... [MORE]	Neil Lori	Mar 11, 2008 13:25
"Leaving aside the half-baked geopolitco-cranko-economic analysis that "informs" Mr. Kunstler's vision of a Peak Oil Ragnarok..." Said like someone who... [MORE]	Bill R	Mar 5, 2008 11:37
Scientific and government studies support Kustler's thesis. See the 40 page report at: http://www.peakoilassoicates.com/POanalysis.html [MORE]	Clifford Wirth	Mar 5, 2008 08:32
At $100 a barrell, demand of excess of 80 billion barrells a day, and huge investments in non0conventional oil that... [MORE]	Sean H.	Mar 5, 2008 07:34
Fantastic review, sir, and you caught Mr Kunstler's POV perfectly. I think this book will become a movie one day,... [MORE]	danny bloom	Mar 5, 2008 06:08

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