running to and fro between the motte [...] and the bailey
Well, what happened in this actual case is that I said it might turn out that rebuilding technological society after a huge catastrophe might be dependent on cheaper oil than we’d actually have, and it was to that that you replied “can we now finally admit peak oil was wrong?”.
What version of “peak oil was wrong” refutes what I said?
That wasn’t an argument against your position per se. It was more of a side lunge. Or a distraction or a pirouette or a slip-and-fall or a bête noire or a whimsy or a wibble—you pick :-)
Well, what happened in this actual case is that I said it might turn out that rebuilding technological society after a huge catastrophe might be dependent on cheaper oil than we’d actually have, and it was to that that you replied “can we now finally admit peak oil was wrong?”.
What version of “peak oil was wrong” refutes what I said?
That wasn’t an argument against your position per se. It was more of a side lunge. Or a distraction or a pirouette or a slip-and-fall or a bête noire or a whimsy or a wibble—you pick :-)