No, it was his Uncle Travelling Matt.

Yeah, the internet must have seemed rather improbable before it was created too.

Which explains how you managed to get everything in that post wrong. I hope you have a better understanding of your own country.

It was up to something like $280 recently. But the people who started it aren't making that money. It's not like they made money out of thin air and sold it.

I wasn't just refering to this article, but to other evidence pointing to how much oil we have. I highly recommend The Age of Oil, a thorough review of the evidence of oil consumption and production. From what I've read (that and other books), we aren't anywhere near peak oil, and there is likely vast amounts of oil not yet discovered. It's amusing to me that by pointing out this evidence, I am immediately branded as some neo-con drill baby drill anti-environmentalist. I actually think we should switch from greenhouse gas polluting energy to renewable energy and drastically reduce our energy consumption and destruction of the environment. But my opinions of what we should do don't change the facts about oil levels.

We first thought we were hitting peak oil in the 1920s IIRC, when the total amount of oil thought to exist in the world is less than what the U.S. uses in a day today. The life expectancy of oil has gone up since then even as our consumption has gone up. Right now, our life expectancy of oil is 34 years. 34 years ago, the life expectancy was les than 20 years. We have been finding oil in massive quantities even as we use more and more. At some point, we'll run out. But we really don't know for sure how much is down there. For a good read, I suggest The Age of Oil, an extremely thorough look at the evidence on oil consumption and production. I've been less than convinced of the evidence that we're anywhere near peak oil. I'm not trying to argue we shouldn't stop polluting. In fact, I think switching to renewable energy isn't nearly enough to save us from disaster.

Like North Dakota, Alaska, Canada, and the Caribbean?

You mean environmentalists are using wishful thinking when saying we'll run out of oil and we'll have to switch to renewable energy sources, even though the evidence now points to there being plenty of oil? Both sides are guilty of wishful thinking and selective reading of the evidence.

Well, excuse me for seeing things differently. Or are you not aware that your opinions are just opinions and not everyone sees things the way you do?

Yes, because I'm in charge of the entire U.S. budget. I'm so sorry for not consulting with you beforehand before I started running the nation. Go complain to someone else with your opinions. I'm not interested in hearing them.

We were discussing whether or not you approve of my presence on your lawn.

WTF is up with TFT? A missing close paren on an article about programming? Are they trying to send a million slashdaughters into cardiac arrest?

Are you comparing hundreds of accidents per hundreds of millions of firearms, to 30 ingestion incidents per, what, a hundred thousand magnets? MIght that be at all relevant? While we're at it, backyard pools kill far more kids under 6 than guns do. Is that reason to ban pools?

And yet, for some reason, they're not employed in IEDs. My guess is that it's too hard to create an air dispersal without alerting your target. But yes, there are everyday components available to make IEDs, and our strategy to counter them cannot rely on simply limiting the raw materials. That is one possible front, with limited apllicability depending on the material. There is a lot more to Attack the Network (AtN), which is what I do, let alone Defeat the Device (DtD) which is what a large portion of JIEDDO does.

OKC 95, the example used in TFS, was an act of terror, and it used ANFO in a VBIED. That's not stupid; it's accurate. Today's IED threat in Afghanistan is more symptomatic of an insurgency, which is the term we usually use rather than terrorism. Not sure what NGA is (NonGovernmental Army?), but it's not a term we use in the intelligence community.