>I read Deffeyes' Hubbert's Peak a few months ago. I thought he made a
>pretty good case for the peak in world oil production occurring within
>the next decade, and decreasing inexorably after that. I know arguments
>from authority aren't absolutely convincing, but this guy is a geologist
>who makes a living finding oil. What's wrong with his analysis?
People have been saying this stuff for years, and it hasn't yet come to pass. It probably will, but the marginal product of the latest version doesn't seem too high. Haven't read the book though.
Doug