Re: Re: Population Control

["L.V. Nadal" <lvnadal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan,

Thanks for the quote.  And the reference to the book.  My own views were formed 
during the 28 years I worked for a major (now merged) petroleum company in 
offshore/deepwater exploration and development.  The company  scheduled 
seminars with the scarcity theorists, paying them big bucks. Those of us 
engaged in actual development and production were never required to attend and 
were requested to refrain from questioning the "theorists" if we did attend.  
Usually the seminars were scheduled at times and places like Denver or Chicago 
that were "inconevenient."

If you want to have a laugh read some of the papers by L.F.Ivanhoe, who, in 
1995 was predicting a worldwide peak and permanent decline in oil production 
"possibly as soon as 2000."  Chicken little meets Y2K.

 The only scarcity I ever experienced was that of cash to fund the finding 
costs of offshore deepwater development, which are about 3 times higher than 
onshore costs.  Fortunately that scarcity never extended down to my personal 
compensation and when the merger occurred I pulled the cord on my inky 
parachute and floated like a happy, and fat, butterfly into onshore retirement.

Leonard

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