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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (1870)	8/21/2008 1:23:53 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

But you still deny the main point in this discussion Neither that point, nor the negation of it, has been the main point of the discussion. that the US has passed peak production That's a well known uncontroversial fact that isn't being debated here. and only has a relatively few years of crude left to find... "relatively few years" is too vague to be very meaningful. But we will be pumping some oil in the US for decades to come, perhaps in to the next century or in small amounts maybe even in the century after that (assuming we haven't come up with an efficient way to make synthetic oil, or with really good replacements for petrochemicals and petroleum based lubricants) Reaching "Peak oil" (either the historical fact of it in the US, or in theories about when it may happen for the world) does not imply "the vast majority of oil is gone", or "we will soon be out (or even almost out) of oil". The large/easy/cheap finds go first, with a great amount of more difficult expensive and small finds still to be drilled for a long time.