TOD drives me insane. I keep reading it because I like to see what Euan Mearns, Dave Cohen, Stuart Staniford, Robert Rapier, and Jerome have to say. But this gold is hidden in a mountain of stinking, US-centric, anti-Mexican 'it's all about population' tirades. ('It's all them brown people's done gone destroyed the world by breeding like rabbits, but they's gonna get it, 'cos only brown people die from environmental problems and that's the way it should be ... I's a headin' for the hills! Yee-HAH!') It's sad to say it, but anyone who stumbles upon the wrong thread at TOD by accident would be quite rational to dismiss them as a lot of complete nutters, and never return to the site again. Which is appalling, because it is undoubtedly the best Peak Oil site on the web. (Even one of the editors calls in with vocal support of such BS. Though everyone has a right to their opinion, it should be realized that some opinions should not be expressed, that is, if the aim is some sort of progress for the organization in the public eye.)

If you ask me whether TOD furthers awareness of Peak Oil, or actually retards it, I honestly would not care to guess.