At long last, due to Mike Ruppert’s inept, borderline impotent performance on George Noory’s Coast-to-Coast AM radio show last night (January 12, 2006), we can safely say that the peak oil hoax is now dead-in-the-water --- R.I.P. And anyone who listened to this broadcast knows full-well why Ruppert’s strawman arguments are nothing more than Big Oil propaganda.

In fact, Ruppert’s logic was so faulty that it eventually became laughable. For example, at one point Ruppert claimed that oil has never been recovered from depths lower than six miles in the earth. But his debate opponent – Jerome Corsi – disputed this notion by explaining how oil has been located 8-10 miles below the surface in Vietnam’s Tiger Fields. When Ruppert sarcastically asked how much oil this locale was actually producing, Corsi responded, “Over one million barrels a day.”

Ruppert’s erroneous statement (one of many, I might add) is significant, especially when coupled with another he made when claiming that Saudi Arabia and Russia had already hit their ‘peak’ production, and would never again produce more than 10 million barrels of oil a day. Corsi corrected him, though, replying that Saudi Arabia is now pumping 11.5 million barrels a day, and has hinted that they may raise their output to 15 million barrels a day. Furthermore, Russia is now threatening to surpass Saudi Arabia as the world’s # 1 oil producer. Thus, both nations are increasing their output, completely shooting-down Ruppert’s hollow arguments.

But getting his facts and figures wrong was only one element of Ruppert’s anemic performance. His reasoning abilities are even less developed, on par with that of a high-school debate student. Take, for example, this convoluted logic:

1) Ruppert said that proof of peak oil can be found in the fact that oil prices have doubled or tripled since 2000. But did he consider that this phenomenon could have also occurred because of GREED from the oil companies? Look at their record-breaking profits for 2005. Or, as Jerome Corsi noted, the price of houses has doubled in the past ten years too, but we’re not running out of them. Hell, we’re building them faster than ever.

2) Ruppert also provided ‘proof’ of peak oil because a certain senator in Washington D.C. began a ‘peak oil’ study. But wait a second – has Ruppert ever weighed the possibility that a slew of lobbyists for Big Oil may have padded this congressman’s pockets to initiate the study in question? If the Abramoff scandal has taught us anything, it’s that D.C. is teeming with dirty money and under-the-table payoffs, and Big Oil is certainly not immune to these tactics. In fact, they're some of the biggest sleazoids around.

3) Lastly, listen to this whopper. Ruppert said peak oil must be real because the world is acting like it’s real. But hold on – the world (by and large) is also acting as if Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda were the masterminds behind 9-11. But does that make it real? What if 100 people all said that the Sun was purple polka-dotted? Would that make it real? Of course not. Can’t Ruppert differentiate between propaganda, illusion, and reality; or is he simply a mouthpiece Company Man for Big Oil?

The answer to this question can be found in one part of the peak oil debate where George Noory pressed Ruppert on whether oil companies were deliberately inflating their prices. After avoiding an answer on a number of occasions, Ruppert finally admitted that YES, oil companies were inflating their prices.

So let’s face it: how can we be experiencing this dramatic ‘peak’ that Ruppert refers to when oil production has DOUBLED since the 1970’s? Does that sound like we’re in the middle of a drastic shortage? Also, countless publications and studies have shown that propaganda-alarmists have been announcing peak oil scares since the late 1800’s! The same applies to coal and lumber. But guess what – we haven’t run out of any of these commodities either, nor any other mineral.

On another note, when the conversation was steered toward whether oil is a fossil fuel, or instead abiotic in nature, Ruppert looked more foolish than a second grader trying to compete against Ken Jennings of Jeopardy fame. This was most evident when Ruppert was asked: how much decayed material does it take to create one barrel of oil. Now this is the most fundamental question there is in regard to the “fossil fuel” myth. And what was Ruppert’s answer? He didn’t know! In fact, he even said, “That’s way above my head!” That’s like someone asking Albert Einstein what 2+2 equals, and he says he didn’t know. How much faith would you then place in his theory of relativity? None whatsoever. Yet we’re supposed to believe Ruppert’s cock n’ bull story when he can’t even answer the most rudimentary of questions. C’mon, get real.

One of the biggest scientific hoaxes of all times is that oil is a fossil fuel which has come into existence via some convoluted biological process that no one seems able to adequately explain. But this scam – with its built-in fallacy of scarcity and shortages – was concocted by the Rockefeller oil and banking cabal, and is now being perpetuated by one of their shills – Mike Ruppert.

Just think about this notion for a moment. Saudi Arabia pumps 11.5 million barrels of oil a day – every day. How many dead dinosaurs, animals, and plants do you think it would take to produce ELEVEN MILLION barrels of oil? And that’s just one nation’s production for one day! Now combine this figure with every oil producing nation on earth for every day of the year – year-in and year-out. And we’ve been pumping oil since the mid-late 1800’s. Millions and millions of barrels of oil every single day. Where the hell did all those dead animals come from? Who falls for this garbage – environmental dupes who can’t see past the end of their noses?

Plus, how about all the oil we’ve discovered where there weren’t even animals? Or what are we supposed to believe, that most of the dead dinosaurs lived in Saudi Arabia because that’s where most of the oil is now located? Or how about oil deposits being discovered below where the fossil record ends (i.e. deeper in the earth than where there are any animal remains)? How did these phenomena (and many more) occur? By accident? It’s ludicrous.

So, let’s cut to the chase. Mike Ruppert has absolutely no credibility whatsoever. He’s the same guy who said on September 12, 2001 – one day after 9-11 – that there was no chance that the World Trade Center towers were destroyed via controlled demolition, and that we should turn our attention elsewhere. One day after 9-11, with no research and no study. Yet he arrived at this preposterous conclusion. He’s also the same guy who gave us con-man Mike Vreeland – quite possibly the biggest fraud ever laid on the patriot movement.

Mike Ruppert is nothing more than a disinformation operative that has been used in various factions and roles to lead people away from the truth. First it was 9-11; now he’s in bed with Big Oil doing the Rockefeller’s dirty work. This guy is pathetic beyond words, and he's a walking-talking advertisement for why Peak Oil ISN'T real. If you’re still falling for his lies, I hate to say it, but you’re even more pathetic than he is.

Afterword: George Noory took a 'fast-blast' poll during the last half-hour of his show, and 62% of the respondents didn't believe Mike Ruppert! 62%. That's called a crushing landslide defeat. Do you get it? The American people don't buy this rubbish. On the other hand, if we were on Noory's show and spoke about the WTC controlled demolitions, I guarantee you that at least 95% of the respondents would believe us. So, hey Mike, keep talking about Peak Oil, because the more you do, the less people fall for this hoax!