Facing teh peak

“The world's production of oil will peak, everyone agrees. Sometime in the coming decades, the amazing machinery of oil production that doubled world oil output every decade for a century will sputter. Output will stop rising, even as demand continues to grow. The question is when.” Kerr, R. Science 20 April 2007:
Vol. 316. no. 5823, p. 351
DOI: 10.1126/science.316.5823.351.