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Matt Simmons Has Died
The Business Insider ^ | 8-9-2010 | Joe Weisenthal

Posted on 08/09/2010 7:41:33 AM PDT by blam

Edited on 08/09/2010 8:23:19 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Prominent oil investor Matt Simmons has died of a heart attack, according to a flash on CNBC.

The famed energy banker was a prominent proponent of peak oil theory, and most recently got attention for his dire calls about the fate of the Gulf of Mexico.


(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bp; deepwaterhorizon; gulf; mattsimons; oilspill
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1 posted on 08/09/2010 7:41:36 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Sucks for his family, but the guy sounds like a tool.


2 posted on 08/09/2010 7:43:01 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater ("Get out of the boat and walk on the water with us!”--Sen. Joe Biden)
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To: blam

May peace be with his family during this time of sorrow.


3 posted on 08/09/2010 7:43:38 AM PDT by deport
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To: blam
I just heard this on CNBC...and was wondering if it had been posted....and the post time is running ahead of my time here...how do you do that?
4 posted on 08/09/2010 7:43:55 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: blam
His legacy will no doubt be his work on peak oil and resource scarcity.

Which has already been proven false.

5 posted on 08/09/2010 7:45:20 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Overproduction, one of the top five business worries of the Amercan Farmer for the past 50 years)
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To: blam

that pic looks like he was gonna have a heart attack...sooner or later...


6 posted on 08/09/2010 7:46:04 AM PDT by stefanbatory (Insert witty tagline here)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

FR time or its server time doesn’t mesh with the internet time and hasn’t for a good while now.


7 posted on 08/09/2010 7:46:04 AM PDT by deport
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To: Future Snake Eater; blam; deport

There was speculation that things were not right with him...he certainly was active spreading fear ....caused a lot of pain.


8 posted on 08/09/2010 7:46:24 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: deport

i think FR time is slowly getting farther and farther ahead...JimRob and JohnRob musta developed a time machine so the Viking Kitties can remove trolls before they even appear!


9 posted on 08/09/2010 7:48:57 AM PDT by stefanbatory (Insert witty tagline here)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

he certainly was active spreading fear ....caused a lot of pain.


The sad thing was that some of it was very easily proven incorrect. But that didn’t keep it from being spread across the net and other media sources.


10 posted on 08/09/2010 7:49:58 AM PDT by deport
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To: Balding_Eagle

“Which has already been proven false. “

Nope, his timing might have sucked but we will run out of oil—one day.


11 posted on 08/09/2010 7:51:44 AM PDT by mainsail that ("A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights" - Napoleon Bonaparte)
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To: stefanbatory
"JimRob and JohnRob musta developed a time machine so the Viking Kitties can remove trolls before they even appear!"

Please don't reveal our operating secrets in public.

Thank you very much.


12 posted on 08/09/2010 7:51:57 AM PDT by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality: Marxism is Evil.)
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To: stefanbatory

Maybe they are putting a second or so of each hour in the bank for future use....... lol. Saving time.


13 posted on 08/09/2010 7:52:37 AM PDT by deport
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To: paulycy

LOL!


14 posted on 08/09/2010 7:55:35 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: blam
Thanks for the post. I'm cubicle bound and get most of my Breaking News from FR. Ever since they found the Blue Stained Dress. :)
15 posted on 08/09/2010 7:56:32 AM PDT by McGruff (How's that Hopey Changey thingy workin for ya?)
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To: mainsail that
Nope, his timing might have sucked but we will run out of oil—one day.

We'll all die one day as well.

16 posted on 08/09/2010 7:57:42 AM PDT by tx_eggman (Liberalism is only possible in that moment when a man chooses Barabas over Christ.)
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To: blam

Pasty, white, almost clay like?

Too much sugar for a diabetic.

Sorry for his death and his family but Peak Oil has been disproven the same as oil being from fossilized whatever from a bunch of dinosaurs, who somehow managed to herd themselves and die in the same place, miles and miles below the surface and even deeper in the ocean.


17 posted on 08/09/2010 7:58:45 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: deport
Maybe they are putting a second or so of each hour in the bank for future use....... lol. Saving time.

...like in Superman III...only with TIME!

18 posted on 08/09/2010 7:59:01 AM PDT by Zeppelin (Keep on FReepin' on...)
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To: tx_eggman
We'll all die one day as well.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

19 posted on 08/09/2010 8:03:09 AM PDT by McGruff (How's that Hopey Changey thingy workin for ya?)
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To: Elsie; colorcountry; reaganaut; greyfoxx39; T Minus Four

Utah Art Buyer Ping

I just lost one of my best customers.


20 posted on 08/09/2010 8:03:40 AM PDT by Utah Binger (Mount Carmel Utah, where Mr. Milquetoast lives with his "Persecution Complex")
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