Energy analyst Chris Nelder fires back at the latest fact-free commentary on peak oil. The Oil Drum, a Web site dedicated to informed discussions about peak oil and energy, announced on July 3 that it is closing down. (For a brief primer on peak oil, see my conversation with Brad Plumer in the Washington Post .) Those who hate the peak oil story didn’t bother to conceal their glee at the news; some even saw occasion to claim victory for their side in the “debate” over the future of fossil fuels. “We could say ‘I told you so,’ not as a school-yard epithet, but simply as a fact,” crowed Mark Mills , co-author of a lightweight book entitled The Bottomless Well , which Publishers Weekly described as “Long on Nietzschean bombast but short on some crucial specifics.” David Blackmon, a Houston-based consultant with a 33-year career in the oil […]