It has become apparent that many people have misinterpreted my ‘Peak Oil’ rants. I know this because I get e-mail with messages like, “thanks for giving me hope,” and “thanks for changing my view of the future.” I am sorry to have to report here that the newfound optimism of some of my readers is entirely unwarranted. After reviewing my past writings, I realize that the fault for this misunderstanding lies with me, since I haven’t done a very good job of articulating exactly what my position is.

This, my friends, is the harsh reality, so pay very close attention: the fact that ‘Peak Oil’ is an entirely manufactured construct does not mean that the doomsday scenarios painted by the ‘Peak’ crowd will therefore not become our new reality. This is not just another scam to further pad the pockets of the oil industry and other financial elites. The stakes are much higher than that. Much higher.

In order to clarify my position on ‘Peak Oil,’ it would be instructive to briefly review the areas of agreement, and the areas of disagreement, that I have with those who are selling the scam.

The Peakers claim that ‘Peak Oil’ is the single most important issue that we are facing today. I agree with that assessment (but not because ‘Peak Oil’ is a valid concept).

The Peakers claim that much of America’s military might has been directed in recent years at conquering the key oil and gas producing regions of the world. And that is obviously quite true. Central Asia and Iraq have been seized, Venezuela has suffered through constant meddling by the CIA, the Sudan has been targeted for a future assault, and Saudi Arabia and Iran have been subjected to saber rattling.

But the Peakers also claim that these military ventures have been motivated by America’s desire to seize what will soon be the last drops of the world’s precious reserves of oil — and that is entirely untrue.

The Peakers claim that we will very soon be facing a world where chaos reigns supreme — a world of war, famine and death on a scale unknown in recorded human history. And that does, in fact, appear to be the case. And we’re not talking about the distant future here, folks; we’re talking about the very near future.

But the Peakers also claim that this global “die off” will be a regrettable, but quite natural, and entirely unavoidable, consequence of the world’s oil taps running dry. And that is the really big lie. That is the lie that will very soon be used to rationalize the killing off of hundreds of millions, possibly billions, of the world’s people. There are, you see, simply too many people in the world who, by merely being alive, are standing in the way of the aspirations of the global elite.

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