This Gulf of Mexico disaster does have a point in peak oil theory though, actually proving all this peak oil theory was (and is) just a brain drain to steal more money for gas from public. Why? Very simple - don't you remember 2-3 yrs ago - every rumour somehow related to oil pumps over the world was causing oil prices spike to the sky - don't you remember - riots in Nigeria, hurrican in Gulf of Mexico, war threat in Persian Gulf - yahoo, ride oil, ride, we're in oil peak.. And now what? Huge oil well polluting , US gov going (or already done) to stop whole offshore oil wells in GoM , and what about oil, it doesn't hit even $80 - what happened? Solar and wind power, GM Volt and what other bullshit replaced that? Or, may be, if not this BP well accident, the oil prices would be already under $50-60 ? May be qui bono is a good question here, considering equipment makers reported it was no problem with equipment, which has already strong record under much harsher conditions?
Don't forget, if oil prices go down - even to $40-50 - next day after it happens all solar-wind-electrocars-moth...ers industry starts BK free falling and consumers over the world will breath to rest , paying less for lot of products - there are lot of products in our world bear in gas prices.
