I read the Archdruid Report. Now, I’m not a Druid (the guy who writes it is, of course). Here’s a graphic he posted (to his 3/20 piece) — and his comments, and mine:
Looks good, eh? WAIT.
From the Archdruid:
You can find this graph in various forms in quite a few places in the American media just now. You’ll notice that, at first glance, it appears to be showing domestic production of petroleum here in the US rising up inexorably to equal domestic consumption, and leaving imports far in the dust.
Take another look, and you’ll see that the line tracking domestic production uses a different scale, on the right side of the chart, that just happens to make current production look three times bigger than it is.
EleBlog take:
What’s important, in addition to the graphic and the raw facts as delineated above, is the specific incident:
- Someone created this baloney, with the sure knowledge that U.S. citizens are data-ignorant and can’t read a freaking graph.
- A group of someones then proceeded to USE the damn thing.
- The “call” that this specific emperor is buck naked came not from the NY Times, or Washington Post, or HuffPost or Salon or the Democratic Party . . . but on an obscure blog.
Make no mistake about it: The Archdruid is CORRECT on this. We are being — quite intentionally — MISLED. The media is complicit.
Believe nothing that you hear, read . . . or anything you have come to think based on what you’ve heard or read.
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