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To The Blogger: 1. SUVs are "safe"? They can tip over, silly. 2. Who said anything about living in caves? Now that's a straw man. 3. You say this: "There is a whole range of extraction technologies that can get ever more oil out of the ground, *albeit with a higher price*." So you've just said it: the price will just keep going up. I.e. it gets harder and harder to use. To Everyone Else: Quit laughing and making fun of this ignorant guy. When you make fun of anyone you are feeding YOUR dark side and therefore YOU are being part of the problem TOO. That's the big words: YOU TOO. If he doesn't want to fill his ignorance with knowledge feel pity, since he'll get the hard route (forced to come around by the reality becoming overwhelming as the oil crashes).

You are confusing a geological peak with a political peak. Peak oil isn't about running out of what is in the ground. It's about being unwilling or unable to get it out. The effect is the same though.

Simply put -- you are an idiot who cannot see his nose despite his face. Peak oil is happening now. Since 2005, world oil production has peaked and is now fighting a vicious decline rate. In any case, I've used a word appropriate for your kind of analysis. But history will be a far better judge of you than I.

Your words, but really it applies to you, "a stunning ignorance of natural resources and their extraction". I would suggest doing some very basic research, look at oil discovery rates over the last 100 years, and take note of the discoveries and their sizes for the last 10 years (also look at the level of exploration expenditure). Then look at the oil production rates of the USA over the last 100 years, then the world production rates over the last 100 years. It is not about running out of oil, it is about declining production. That should show you the problem very plainly. If not, then you will never understand.

I always find dim bulbs like Rako entertaining. He is obviously someone who has done very little research into energy issues and is laughably ignorant of the facts. Read his article as if you are watching a late-night comedy show.

Oh dear, looks like none of your readers agrees with you. Guess you just got this one wrong. Stick your head back in the sand buddy, where it causes least offence.

Thanks for the laugh. I haven't read anything this silly in a long time. You crack me up. May Peal Oil bite you in the ass!

Neither Rako nor Julian Simon, to whom Rako links, has a grip on today's reality in world wide oil production. I'd be interested to see how they explain away the very credible predictions made by the German Energy Watch Institute and others.

Those soccer moms can't trade in the SUVs fast enough since apparently they aren't as stupid as the author. $120 oil and climbing, and day by day there are fewer cornucopians remaining.

You are an uninformed dimwit.

Peak Oil is not about "running out of oil", only stupid people think that. It is about not being able to replace the declining fields with new ones, so the total production goes down. It is inevitable. And sure, we can make oil from any energy source, but by taking a look at the distribution of energy sources today (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_resources_and_consumption), you will notice that renewables have a long way to go.

Talk about Straw Man; you're being ad hominum. The reality is more likely you're scared out of your wits for your future wellbeing and that of your children. And you should be. As an engineer, you will have to come up with solutions that allow doing more with less. Europeans use 50% less oil per capita than US and Canadians. It's time you got to work upgrading things to that level of efficiency than bashing a whole lot of well intentioned folks.

The vast majority of the world's oil is produced from giant fields, and some have been in production for 60+ years. The largest oilfield in the world, Ghawar, in Saudi Srabia, produces almost 7% of global subbly, on the order of 5 million barrels a day. This field is already aging though and in decline, and the "advanced extraction" techniques you speak of can only slow the decline rate. Despite billions of dollars of investment, the oil sands in canada produce maybe 200,000 barrels per day, and the oil produced there must be upgraded with conventional crude to make it usable. Shale oil has the energy density of baked potatoes. Peak oil means peak energy, any way you look at it.

OIL WILL NEVER EVER GET EXPENSIVE!!

1. We know how to make hydrogen from water. 2. We know how to make carbon monoxide from graphite and CO2 (heat it to 800 degrees and pass the CO2 over the carbon). 3. The two of these combined is called synthesis gas, and it's used to make any alkane you want to name: methane, propane, hexane, decane, paraffin, whateverane. All this stuff was known by 1930. Hydrogen can be produced by hydrolysis from wind turbines, solar panels, hydroelectric, or nukes. Solar concentrators can raise the temperature of anything to 800 quite easily. FT synthesis is used all the time, it's application in oil refininig is as common as table salt. We will run out of oil when we run out of sunlight. At that point we'll be worried about other problems, for anyone still around.

I'm not sure about the flint. Every time I try to get one for my lighter they're out.