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Re:The sky's gone dark by happyscrappy on Thursday October 01, 2015 @02:37PM (#10313515)
>It's not that peak oil didn't happen, or that it wasn't traumatic

What trauma do you mean?

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Re:The sky's gone dark by marcosdumay on Thursday October 01, 2015 @05:21PM (#10314833)
You may not have noticed, but about the entire world has stopped growing by now.

Everything looks like growth will resume, but in a different way, and conditioned to a different social organization.

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Re:The sky's gone dark by titzer on Friday October 02, 2015 @07:45AM (#10317869)
That's not because of high oil prices, it's because of financial chaos and general market turmoil. The oil boom across the Dakotas collapsed, but not because of lack of oil....?
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Re:The sky's gone dark by T-A on Thursday October 01, 2015 @03:45PM (#10314115)
Something like this? http://twincharts.com/dow-jones-oil.html

I'm pretty sure at least some future economic historians will argue that what really killed the economy in 2008 was the "superspike" in energy prices.

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