" Or as peak oil expert Richard Heinberg argues, we are moving beyond peak oil and into "peak everything.
Peak copper, peak oil, peak water, I can usually be relied upon to pooh pooh or rubbish those stories about natural resources running out.
Fascinating of course, and undoubtedly these results will be taken in some quarters to mean that we will never run out of oil, Peak Oil being bunkum.
In the 70s we used to calculate peak oil and peak gas and came up with some great numbers that were consistent with what happened in the next three decades, but then things changed.
Folks who ardently believe in Peak Oil (capital P, capital O) believe the era of Peak Oil is upon us, or, worse, already passed.
This is pretty much the same as what everyone says will happen when we get to peak oil so we can I assume say that whatever will happen with peak oil should be happening now?
For all you Peak Oil enthusiasts out there, check out this alarmist op-ed by Jeremy Leggett (The Next Crisis: Peak Oil) on the Forbes.com opinion channel.
But with the hype generated by high oil prices and peak oil speculation, this industry is getting a boost.
Also up there is the fallout from a global economic collapse, possibly resulting from a state of peak oil -- the point where oil production reaches its peak and thereafter goes into freefall.
Put us on the path to the right kind of "peak oil" -- and peak carbon -- the peak that comes, not because we find less and less, but because we want less and less.
Investing in the top guns of the oil industry is a good bet, peak oil or not.
Peak oil may already be with us, and peak coal in 10-15 years, while peak lithium remains a subject of speculation.
It seems to me that much of the oil industry is trying to do the same around peak oil.
Practitioners within the oil industry tell me they feel it is almost an unspoken act of treason to profess doubts on peak oil.
This iteration has been hatched by Houston investment banker and Peak Oil worrywort Matt Simmons.
Market forces will deal with Peak Oil more efficiently than Leggett gives credit for.
The U.K. Peak Oil Task Force is a small and surprisingly motley crew of businesses.
An epochal shift has been triggered: "Peak oil" is emerging on the demand side.
Of course, there is more than just geology that is setting us up for Peak Oil.
In Egypt, peak oil production was achieved in 1996 and it has been falling steadily ever since.
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That peak oil production is just around the corner, meaning global oil supply will begin an inexorable downward slide.
For years I have written that the peak oil folks were missing something fundamental by performing an overly static analysis.
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People have been warning of peak oil almost since they began putting the stuff into barrels in Pennsylvania in 1859.
The 2009 Wicks Review of U.K. energy security allocated just over one page to peak oil in a 119-page document.
We might want to reduce gas usage for peak oil reasons, might want to do it for climate change reasons.
Expect a greater degree of growth in this area with the arrival of peak oil and higher prices at the pump.
The most obvious option in the peak oil dilemma is to move to something other than oil for our energy needs.
It is certainly true that, against all predictions of peak oil, new technologies have helped drive a surge in US hydrocarbon production.
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