The Oil Drum

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The Oil Drum is a community constructed with the purpose of bringing together intelligent people to have intelligent empirically-based discussions of the future of our energy supply. Most of our roster of editors and contributors possess advanced degrees (MAs, MScs, and Ph.D.s) from many disciplines including engineering, physics, other hard sciences, the social sciences, as well as other relevant fields. Our goal is to influence the discourse and policy regarding our society's energy future, and we hope to do that by facilitating informed and empirically-based discussion about the future of our energy supply.

Simply put, we at The Oil Drum strive to promote better discourse about, and understanding of, our energy supply--the geopolitical, political, and social aspects of a plateauing supply with ever growing global demand could have an impact on the daily lives, especially of those who are less fortunate.

We at The Oil Drum believe that the question of when the "peak" will be--a question that can be debated by rational people, provided they had the requisite information--needs to be debated more forthrightly and in much more detail and with much more transparency than is currently the case.

We at the Oil Drum believe that our society must have more urgent public discussions about energy--discussions that politicians do not seem to want to have. Much of the media coverage, which makes it sound like "everything's ok," makes it harder to have those essential discussions, especially when their reporting is taken as fact. We argue that it should not be taken as such.

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