Thursday, January 26, 2012

We've hit "peak oil"; now comes permanent price volatility

Click here to access article by John Timmer from Ars Technica.

This is a report of a recent report that lies behind an expensive paywall in the prominent scientific journal Nature.  
Most established sources of oil are seeing declines in the area of five percent annually. Given that decline, it will be extremely difficult to meet demands projected for 2030—in fact, we'd have to add the equivalent of our total current production. In a fit of understatement, the authors deem this "very unlikely to happen."