A journalistic triumph, of sorts

We must start transitioning to a far less oil-intensive way of life. It can't be done overnight. Complacency is our enemy. Politicians, business leaders and every single one of us should read the signs of the times, and get on with it.

Pity the DMN editorial staff took so long to reach this conclusion. Imagine what we could have done by now if we had foregone the exercise in futility in Afghanistan and Iraq - that the DMN plead for repeatedly - and focused on PO issues instead.

This was a terrible editorial; one of the reasons I don't read the MSM.

1) No data of discovery declines - what else matters? Who is going to make a claim about peak oil with zero meaningful data? Oh, the usual "experts" are quoted...sounds like gathering trivia for some ideological agenda.

2) Who cares about gas prices for the last four years? This is the supposed evidence for serious fuel supply problems? Sheese.

Mr Dreher, I'm sure you all have a nice wall where y'all post particularly funny mis-statements and quotes and mistakes. My Dad's small town paper office always had them posted loud and proud to make fun of each other. His most infamous, written at 0400 (and it showed!) Funny thing is, the editor of the paper had to make Dad re-read it four times before he caught on:

RABID RACCOON ATTACKS MAN IN YARD WITH WEEDWHACKER

Ahhh! Beware the Dangling Participle~

Typical motivation-speaker pablum.

"We must believe in good things, and each of us must do good things, because it's good to do good things goodly.

Gas is expensive, we don't like it; so, let's just do something, now, all of us, leaders, experts and people that talk a lot, write a lot, and opine a lot. We should all meet in a really big room and talk for a really long time about important stuff, and then, from all of us, as a consequence, truth will arise like smoke from two sticks rubbed together. All we need are lots of smart people on committees `taking charge' and doing things, because if we don't take charge and do things, then the world will end, and our children, and our children's children, and our children's children's children, and our children's children's children's children will not be able to have lots of fun until they die."

What will do us in is not the price of gas, but the price we pay for tolerating this gas-bag talking-head culture of speculative solution-mongering. Yuk!