Irresponsible - and false - scaremongering on the FT's front page | 56 comments (56 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

How rigorous can their editing really be if they confuse oil and gas?

Mikhail from SF

by Tsarrio (dj_tsar@yahoo.com) on Wed Apr 26th, 2006 at 12:40:44 PM EST
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It was an American who thinks oil is a synonym for gasoline. See? They weren't even wrong really.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Apr 26th, 2006 at 12:44:40 PM EST
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Even if that's what they meant they were still wrong. The pipelines transport oil, not gasoline.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid on Wed Apr 26th, 2006 at 01:00:46 PM EST
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Re: The FT replies to me (none / 1)

It's just a cop-out, clearly. Jerome demanded a retraction on the front page and they don't seem to have published his LTE.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Apr 26th, 2006 at 12:54:44 PM EST
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Irresponsible - and false - scaremongering on the FT's front page | 56 comments (56 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)