Has the World Already Passed ?Peak Oil??
Has the World Already Passed “Peak Oil”?
New analysis pegs 2006 as highpoint of conventional crude production.
Mason Inman
For National Geographic News
Published November 9, 2010
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The year 2006 may be remembered for civil strife in Iraq, the nuclear weapon testing threat by North Korea, and the genocide in Darfur, but now it appears that another world event was occurring at the same time—without headlines, but with far-reaching consequence for all nations.
That’s the year that the world’s conventional oil production likely reached its peak, the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Vienna, Austria, said Tuesday.(...)