Jumped the shark is right
What a horrible, horrible time to be a peak-energy doomer. It must pain you, deeply, to look at the Henry Hub price every morning.
Today it's around 3.10 per MMBTU. Normalizing against median household income, this is the cheapest natural gas has been in the history of America. And let's not forget, a BTU of natural gas is the most useful BTU of fossil fuel known to man, incredibly clean to burn and hyper-efficient at performing useful work. A modern natural gas power plant approaches twice the efficiency of an aging coal plant, when comparing BTU's in to kilowatt hours out.
The coming decade, and the associated explosion of shale energy in America will make these Nelder postings more quaint and humorous. I expect, by 2020, people will read such things and laugh ... "can you believe supposedly smart people actually worried where the energy was going to come from".
If it makes you feel better Chris, I doubt any news show will have you on anytime soon. Your peak oil background now has you on the wrong side of history.
Keep your tin-foil hat on tight Chris. The shale gale is going to blow long and hard.
