Charlie Rose - Daniel Yergin

[powerease]

Yergin, mumbo-jumbo Peak Oil denier.

Reality, world moving from cheap and abundant energy supplies to more scarce and more expensive in the face of rising world population.

[roadog420]

charlie rose and daniel yergin are both part of the bilderberg group.

[aviomaster]

Soonerg212 --- Of course ,, Plus IRAQ is 2 nd  largest OIL reserve known today ,,

IRAN is 3 rd ..

I wonder why USA goverment is all over IRAN ...

[aviomaster]

EUROPEANS  drive small cars ... small engines FUEL economy plaid a big role in EUROPE for a long TIME ... USA has build a lot of highways ,, YOU have to pay for them ... GAS TAX ... SPEND more gas ..

[Soonerg212]

Amen brother Amen. This is why my country the United States has ADD. They don't pay attention to the future.

[Redshift21]

Yergin is a moron, in early 2008 he was on TV saying that oil would drop down to $65 a barrel by mid way through the year and that there was nothing wrong with the supply and demand side of oil...... I would have to go check it for myself if that idiot told me night was dark, I just don't trust him anymore.

The west needs to invest aggressively in renewable sources of power, we should be putting up wind turbines as fast as we can and every new home should have a solar panel on it by law.

[greatsea]

I read "The Prize" and "Commanding Heights" and think Yergin is a great academic when it doesn't involve prognostication. The fact is that Yergin is an embroiled man. He's a part of the problem. I'm not assuming there is some privileged position from which anyone can speak clearly about what's going on. But Yergin's diagnoses are too loaded with his own interests for him to be a candidate for such clarity. I almost feel sorry for him. He's had to sell a bit of his academic soul.

[tenbbs]

I'm reading The Prize now, and I like it so far. I love the fact that he has cited so much of his research - there are so many books out there that are not well documented - this one clearly is. But you're both asking him to make forecasts, and it's unrealistic to expect an accurate forecast, from anyone, all of the time. In specific response to Redshift, in early 08 no one was out there yelling about a huge energy price spike and a credit market collapse.

[NebulaStarGazer]

Yes, I think Bush's administration knew about his plain on attacking Iraq.

[JJJadm]

cause all these was well planned ahead of time

[TheWiseCommenter]

I can't stand China. we should give our business to Indians or Brazilians. they are much better people.

[JJJadm]

many car dealers have been stealing the money of the american people for a long long time.

[rewards1dude]

Yes, they've been "stealing" our money and giving us brand new vehicles in return! Those bastards!

[RichCrisler]

I can't wait for Ford, GM, Chrysler, Toyota, Nissan, Ferrari, VW, and all the rest to go under. They don't listen to the consumer they tell the consumer what they will get. Ford Chevy and Dodge are all seeing this now, but there so stupid they just keep building SUV's. There are so many revolutionary companys waiting in the wings for them to drop the ball and god love um, there doing it.

[rewards1dude]

They built SUV's because that's what consumers wanted.

Demand for SUV's and big trucks have all but vanished. As a result, they are scaling back the number of SUV's and trucks they build significantly.

Demand for hybrids like the Toyota Prius are through the roof. It's in the car companies' best interest to build more hybrids and highly efficient vehicles because this is what consumers are demanding right now and that demand isn't going to go away any time soon.

[RichCrisler]

They built SUV's because like the race for the presadency the chose is not a chose it's the best of the worst much like chosing which hand is better when there both full of shit. They booth stink. No body wants SUV's, but it's what they offer. SUV's are some of the worst cars ever built in every way, gas, safty, repair expence, and they just look ugly.

[rewards1dude]

No, consumers have always had a choice. Small cars with decent fuel economy have always been available, but during the 90's gas was incredibly cheap (around 20 bucks a barrel) and our government didn't impose gas taxes to keep it higher, so people didn't see much of a reason to buy cars based on fuel economy. When gas is $.50-$1/gallon people aren't concerned about fuel economy. Hence the demand for large vehicles. I agree SUV's are the worst in every area. We need small, light, efficient cars.

[RichCrisler]

Ok what chose is it if you have a cool looking car like a Ferrari as the bench mark or whats cool and a pinto as whats not and they give you a chose of a drab car like a Prius or a Corvette. We like economy but with no chose for a cool but economical car there is no clear chose. Which is why for the first time ever the Honda Accord has surpast the Ford F150 as the best selling vehicle in the US. The people are starting to speak but I have a feeling as always that the will do to little to late!

[rewards1dude]

We have always had a choice. I'm not sure why you're blaming the car companies for "forcing" SUV's and big ass trucks on us. If nobody bought them, they wouldn't continue to make them. It would be stupid. They didn't sit at a board meeting and say "how can we force people to buy SUV's today instead of cars?" That wouldn't make economic sense. If people demand fuel-efficient cars then companies will phase-out big gas-guzzlers and step up production of smaller cars which is what we are seeing now.

[RichCrisler]

Bullshit thats like saying if you go into a store and they only have Levi's and you buy them it's because you wanted them and not because they didn't have what you wanted. Bullshit!

I'll tell you what go to a car lot and ask for a hydrid car. There's a waiting list and in some cases they have none built yet, but guess what they got all the gasoline cars you want. I reiderait no chose.

[rewards1dude]

If the store only has Levi's then go to another store! Nobody is forcing you to buy shitty vehicles. If they don't have Hybrids then thank them for their time and go somewhere that does have them. Ultimately the consumer is responsible for where they put their money. As of right now, hybrids like the Toyota Prius are in sky-high demand, so if you can't find one it's not the car lot being anti-hybrid, it's the car lot not having enough to sell! Stop blaming our gas woes on car companies.

[RichCrisler]

What if most stores sell levi's or ones which look like them, then do you still have a chose? What if laws are inacted by congress for jean's which make all jeans look alike? Then do you still have a chose, if they all look the same? If you want good jeans you have to pay 4x what is normal for them so is this a chose? No it's not. It's a chose by default. If some one offers you a cool car we all want one but we can't aford it, so we get what they got and shrug off to live our life.

[JJJadm]

go to another store or go post your name on a list of people waiting for a hibrid car?Wow i just sounded like the Cuban goverment,where poeple have to place their names on a list to get good.

[rewards1dude]

Why don't you post your comment as a reply? Worried that I'll respond to it?

Hybrid cars are in massive demand. There is practically 0 demand for SUV's and light trucks. With demand that large, car companies struggle to make the cars fast enough. They aren't hatching some big conspiracy to keep American consumers from purchasing hybrid cars. That would make 0 sense as there is big money to be made by selling these cars.

The Nintendo Wii for example. Mass demand = mass shortages and wait lists.

[JJJadm]

a Wii is not a necessity,a hybrid car is a necessity.

[RichCrisler]

I'm shure your well awhere that a car lot's job is to sell cars, but a car companys job is to make them. Most car companys get money from big oil and government, to make new things which is why we have Hummers that get 6mpg. We all want something nice but the car companys are to blame because they are well aware that most people get in there head to buy a car and just go to the first lot they come to and buy the first car they find in the cash line. If they got $20,000 to buy!

[rewards1dude]

If a person who is looking to buy a new car simply wanders to the first car lot they see to be told what to buy, then that's their own fault. You are removing responsibility from the consumer and putting it on the company. People bought big SUV's in the 90's - early 2000s because gas was incredibly cheap and who doesn't want a large powerful vehicle? No conspiracy. You remind of the fat people who sued McDonald's for making them fat. Nobody forced them to eat at McDonald's. Their own choice.

[JJJadm]

our goverment should have warned us of the consecuences of the war of Iraq,why do we need our goverment for?They were suppposed to tell us this was gonna happen.

[JJJadm]

didn't the Bush administration knew,why did Bush attacked Iraq?

[RichCrisler]

The rezone why it's happening is because people are so stupid they by new car after new car not worring about where the old one will go. We need to have companys with the forsite to build motors and produces for cars that have already been built so they can be maintaind. To many companys build cars to be rolling trash. After 10 or 15 years there unusable.