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To: stockman_scott who wrote (76849)	6/1/2010 1:58:18 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 149317

He needs to spend less time on idle gossip, and more time telling people what is really important; we are totally screwed. What the US Government (the EIA) is Forecasting with Respect to US Oil Production and Renewable Energy Posted by Gail the Actuary on May 31, 2010 - 4:31pm I thought new readers might be interested in what the US government--that is, the US Energy Information Administration-- has to say about future US oil production and future US renewable production. I have taken the forecast information from the Annual Energy Outlook 2010. Figure A - Graph constructed from Table 1.3 of EIA's Monthly Energy Review Figure A shows US historical energy consumption by source. One can see that the largest source of energy is petroleum. Natural gas and coal are close to tied for second place in US energy consumption. Renewables make up only a small part of US energy supply. If you define renewables broadly (including hydroelectric (blue); ethanol + wood (orange); wind (tiny green line) and other renewables (invisible)), then renewable energy consumption has been close to flat since 1985. If you define renewables as only the newer renewables (wind and solar), then renewable energy supply is tiny, but growing rapidly from a small base. theoildrum.com