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The 'Peak Oil' Myth: New Oil Is Plentiful

anaconda, I don't think it matters that a textbook defines "peak" as half produced. In the context of peak oil it is about flow rates not reserves. I think longoil did a great job of explaining this.

As to your contention that we are now in a "moderate to quiet period of regeneration", if the regeneration does not provide the oil flows we need today, and the over 100 we need in the future, then we have "peak oil", i.e. peak flow rates and a shortage.

Same way with not being able to drill the west coast. With your slow generation rate and the delays in drilling...same thing not enough flow.

Demand destruction will help, of course, but remember those overseas consumers don't have the same (well mostly) cheapened currency that we do.

And by the way I am not a shill for anything. So don't include everyone who thinks we have reached peak flow rates as being in on the "conspiracy".

An Energy Policy That Makes Sense, Revisited

User 145964...I completely agree with you. Our government will take whatever taxes they can and mis-allocate them as quickly as possible.

An Energy Policy That Makes Sense, Revisited

ozzy43, thanks for the rational explanation. Brian Pursley, you are going to be very shocked in the the years ahead...get ready. Your "theory" is about as logical as the "rain will follow the plow" cult that has helped us overpopulate the western deserts of the US...