Interview with renowned energy analyst about the economic devastation that awaits us if President Trump does not soon make a deal with Iran to restore peaceful navigation through the Strait of Hormuz.
Martenson also believed in the so called “peak oil” B.S. Martenson also was a fear monger when COVID first came out. Martenson is a click bait dude trying to make a living on social media.
Oil is a finite resource and has had multiple relevant poeaks, with the US 1971 peak being predicted accurately by petroleum geologist M. King Hubbert around 1956.
Peak conventional oil did happen in 2005, followed by high prices, financial crisis, then a surge of light oil and condensates from the huge American fracking enterprise.
Oil + condensates peaked at year-end 2018, followed by the repo-crisis and COVID-lockdowns to neuter the going-direct-bailout until the inflation hit when lockdowns ended.
A second oil + condensates peak occurred in November 2025.
"Interesting times", again.
Chris Martenson has medical background (Ph.D. in Neurotoxicology from Duke). Would you be so kind as to clarify what you mean by "fear monger when COVID first came out"?
That looks like first quarter and spring of 2020. A lot of Americans got very sick and died, as you will recall, particularly black people in New York with very low vitamin-D levels and the kind of "medical care" which was being administered in New York at that time.
My first patient almost died of COVID over 3 weeks in the hospital in Austin, Texas November and December 2019, completely typical viral-looking pneumonia, spreading to liver and kidneys, not improved by antibiotics, and the only positive test he had was a nothing, a common-cold, "coronavirus".
When I saw his discharge summary in early January 2020 I knew what he'd had.
Luc Montagnier said around April 2020 that the sequence of the Wuhan coronavirus was a lab strain, evident from the "scars" of sequence insertions into the RNA. We knew that the US, Canadians and Chinese had been cooperating on work with these viruses to "make vaccines", a thinly veiled Gain of Function program that created weaponized coronavirus.
I don't think Martinson was alarmist at all for what I was also finding out about the weaponized coronavirus in those days.
I blogged at www.johndayblog.com through all of that. Feel free to go back and look at what I was digging up in the first half of 2020.
This post from March 28, 2020 opens with an essay about the state of our knowledge at that point, including the bioweapons lab at Ft. Detrick shutting in July 2019 for a "breach of containment", though "no harm was done", except that some people in a nearby retirement community died of a mysterious viral pneumonia, only testing positive for a "common cold" in some cases. https://www.johndayblog.com/2020/03/humpty-dumpty-is-broken.html
I got over COVID in 3 days, twice with HCQ, self administered. Wasn’t any worse than the flu. I don’t suppose you were prescribing HCQ early on for COVID? Even IVM would have been almost as good. I pity the people who went to the hospital for that.
Yes I was from March 2020, then ivermectin from August 2020.
I gave away over 40,000 doses of 5000 IU vitamin-D to patients and coworkers at my clinic in 2020, with instructions on how to supplement themselves and their families.
I was fired (after 18 years and a recent maximal merit pay raise) in October 2021 for "vaccine refusal", and was de-certified after 33 years by the American Board of Family Medicine for "advising patients against COVID-19 vaccination", which was true of all children, pregnant women, healthy young people, anybody who already recovered and anybody who preferred ivermectin prophylaxis.
And there was no peak oil. Martenson was a wannabe Obama and UNIPCC pleaser with that back in 2009. His degrees don’t mean nothing because his track record and intentions are suspect. He’s a Fauci wannabe.
So. If everybody says "Martenson is a bad guy," then... you win? In the youtube epidsode you linked us to, the first one, he says, "yeah, it looks like this going to be really bad." So yeah. Hysteria. But a lot of us thought it looked really bad. He DOES have that click-baity feel. Sure. So, yeah, Parsons is not far off. Take everything with a grain of salt?
One thing most people ignore is that fact that there is plenty of oil pumping and refining capacity that does not rely on access to the Strait of H, and which is remaining untapped because if we ramp it all up (which requires investment money), we will prove that we don't really need the oil that comes through the Strait. Then, when the Strait does eventually open, there will be a massive oil glut and prices will fall drastically.
Mullahcratic Iran does not make deals. Iran temporizes, Iran lies, Iran violates treaties. Iran is intrinsically dishonest. Negotiation is a cynical ploy. Mullahcratic Iran is malevolent.
Iran will accept a "deal" that gives Iran military control of the Strait. Period. End-of-story.
And the bottom issue is not energy or control of the Strait. The bottom issue is a nuclear IRGC.
If Iran comes into possession of nuclear weapons, it is only a matter of time before they engineer a way to smuggle one or more into the US. And don't think Iran won't detonate them.
Previous President Ahmadinejad is on record saying that a world without America can be imagined. Don't think Iran has abandoned that end-goal.
Iran has received missile technology from China. Iran's nuclear attack on the US will be accompanied by a nuclear-tipped missile attack on Israel.
Oil is a diversion. The Strait of Hormuz is a distraction.
The US is pretty much energy independent. The only energy-shock will be concentrated in Western Europe, excluding France, the imbecilic leaders of which have sacrificed their energy sector on the altar of Net-Zero.
Martenson also believed in the so called “peak oil” B.S. Martenson also was a fear monger when COVID first came out. Martenson is a click bait dude trying to make a living on social media.
Oil is a finite resource and has had multiple relevant poeaks, with the US 1971 peak being predicted accurately by petroleum geologist M. King Hubbert around 1956.
Peak conventional oil did happen in 2005, followed by high prices, financial crisis, then a surge of light oil and condensates from the huge American fracking enterprise.
Oil + condensates peaked at year-end 2018, followed by the repo-crisis and COVID-lockdowns to neuter the going-direct-bailout until the inflation hit when lockdowns ended.
A second oil + condensates peak occurred in November 2025.
"Interesting times", again.
Chris Martenson has medical background (Ph.D. in Neurotoxicology from Duke). Would you be so kind as to clarify what you mean by "fear monger when COVID first came out"?
Literally 100 videos of him stoking the hysteria. https://youtu.be/zjWq0cyR4Qc?is=kJiqltDR6t0q9WeO
That looks like first quarter and spring of 2020. A lot of Americans got very sick and died, as you will recall, particularly black people in New York with very low vitamin-D levels and the kind of "medical care" which was being administered in New York at that time.
My first patient almost died of COVID over 3 weeks in the hospital in Austin, Texas November and December 2019, completely typical viral-looking pneumonia, spreading to liver and kidneys, not improved by antibiotics, and the only positive test he had was a nothing, a common-cold, "coronavirus".
When I saw his discharge summary in early January 2020 I knew what he'd had.
Luc Montagnier said around April 2020 that the sequence of the Wuhan coronavirus was a lab strain, evident from the "scars" of sequence insertions into the RNA. We knew that the US, Canadians and Chinese had been cooperating on work with these viruses to "make vaccines", a thinly veiled Gain of Function program that created weaponized coronavirus.
I don't think Martinson was alarmist at all for what I was also finding out about the weaponized coronavirus in those days.
I blogged at www.johndayblog.com through all of that. Feel free to go back and look at what I was digging up in the first half of 2020.
This post from March 28, 2020 opens with an essay about the state of our knowledge at that point, including the bioweapons lab at Ft. Detrick shutting in July 2019 for a "breach of containment", though "no harm was done", except that some people in a nearby retirement community died of a mysterious viral pneumonia, only testing positive for a "common cold" in some cases. https://www.johndayblog.com/2020/03/humpty-dumpty-is-broken.html
I got over COVID in 3 days, twice with HCQ, self administered. Wasn’t any worse than the flu. I don’t suppose you were prescribing HCQ early on for COVID? Even IVM would have been almost as good. I pity the people who went to the hospital for that.
Yes I was from March 2020, then ivermectin from August 2020.
I gave away over 40,000 doses of 5000 IU vitamin-D to patients and coworkers at my clinic in 2020, with instructions on how to supplement themselves and their families.
I was fired (after 18 years and a recent maximal merit pay raise) in October 2021 for "vaccine refusal", and was de-certified after 33 years by the American Board of Family Medicine for "advising patients against COVID-19 vaccination", which was true of all children, pregnant women, healthy young people, anybody who already recovered and anybody who preferred ivermectin prophylaxis.
Another https://youtu.be/c_BOznHadg0?is=f4cFCjjj7CoAa--Q
And there was no peak oil. Martenson was a wannabe Obama and UNIPCC pleaser with that back in 2009. His degrees don’t mean nothing because his track record and intentions are suspect. He’s a Fauci wannabe.
So. If everybody says "Martenson is a bad guy," then... you win? In the youtube epidsode you linked us to, the first one, he says, "yeah, it looks like this going to be really bad." So yeah. Hysteria. But a lot of us thought it looked really bad. He DOES have that click-baity feel. Sure. So, yeah, Parsons is not far off. Take everything with a grain of salt?
One thing most people ignore is that fact that there is plenty of oil pumping and refining capacity that does not rely on access to the Strait of H, and which is remaining untapped because if we ramp it all up (which requires investment money), we will prove that we don't really need the oil that comes through the Strait. Then, when the Strait does eventually open, there will be a massive oil glut and prices will fall drastically.
"does not soon make a deal with Iran"
That's where the analysis enters NeverNeverland.
Mullahcratic Iran does not make deals. Iran temporizes, Iran lies, Iran violates treaties. Iran is intrinsically dishonest. Negotiation is a cynical ploy. Mullahcratic Iran is malevolent.
Iran will accept a "deal" that gives Iran military control of the Strait. Period. End-of-story.
And the bottom issue is not energy or control of the Strait. The bottom issue is a nuclear IRGC.
If Iran comes into possession of nuclear weapons, it is only a matter of time before they engineer a way to smuggle one or more into the US. And don't think Iran won't detonate them.
Previous President Ahmadinejad is on record saying that a world without America can be imagined. Don't think Iran has abandoned that end-goal.
Iran has received missile technology from China. Iran's nuclear attack on the US will be accompanied by a nuclear-tipped missile attack on Israel.
Oil is a diversion. The Strait of Hormuz is a distraction.
The US is pretty much energy independent. The only energy-shock will be concentrated in Western Europe, excluding France, the imbecilic leaders of which have sacrificed their energy sector on the altar of Net-Zero.
Milgram's machinations aren't coming. They are here. They are always here.
Shockers & shockees line up, forward & back.
Breathe deep the gathering gloom
Watch lights fade from every room
Bedsitter people look back and lament
Another day's useless energy's spent ~ Late Lament, The Moody Blues