Marc Courtenay

Peak Oil: A Reality or a Lie?

Thank you, and I'm looking forward to reading your book when it is available.


On Aug 27 11:25 AM Ferdinand E. Banks wrote:

> Marc, have you ever heard me tell people that I am the leading academic
> energy economist in the world. I do it all the time, and when there
> is nobody around I tell myself. Anyway, today I was sitting in marvelous
> Stockholm, whatching the animals go by, and also putting together
> the lecture on peak oil that I plan to give soon, in which I crush
> doubters.
>
> Well, this great article of yours will be referred to, although in
> the first chapter of my new book (or the chapter on oil) I'm afraid
> that I will use the word brilliant to describe it. Your article is
> what we need to give the fools their comeuppance.
>
> Is it really so, is it really and truly so, that people are so dumb
> that they can look at the frequency plots (of outputs) for hundreds
> of fields, and a dozen regions (like the US, UK and Norwegian North
> Sea, Russia) and come to the conclusion that there will not be a
> global peak. Of course, who gives a damn. When the oil price starts
> to escalate again nobody is going to ask about peak oil.