ABC football announcer Brent Musberger had Pickens up in the press box at the start of the third quarter of Saturday night’s Kansas-Oklahoma State game.
The billionaire Pickens, an OSU alum, went straight to the point when Musberger asked him about Peak Oil.
“We’ve got 85 million barrels of (global) supply and 88 million barrels of demand,” Pickens said.
I hope at least a few of the football crowd was listening attentively.
As I noted in a post earlier this week, adapted from my weekly newspaper column, Pickens called $100/bbl oil by the end of this year a few months ago. Representatives of Big Oil companies and shills like Daniel Yergin scoffed.
Well, they’re not scoffing now. And, what could well be more serious, at least in economic terms, than global warming, is starting to get mainstream public airplay.
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Not a suprise that Pickens would cut right to the heart of the matter, "Yes Virginia, there is Peak Oil but this time there will be no Santa Claus..."
I can see the reactions of a few of the football fans as being about as clueless as those of Rose Dawson's pathetic mother in the movie Titanic: "I hope the lifeboats aren't too crowded"....
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