onlooker wrote:To be honest I have not read that paper you cited. From your outline this makes compelling sense. I am not confident of my forecast, it may work out the way you say especially given that our Economy has integrated into globalization so much. Perhaps, my faith lies in the ability to transition quickly to a Command Economy as we sort of did during WWII. Also because unlike many places we in the US have a more favorable resource to population ratio. All quite tenuous but gotta keep some faith alive. I realize all this is assuming the ability to maintain social order, that is not a given
Thank you for giving me a direct and honest answer to my question, onlooker. Those are mighty hard to come by around here.
This is the best way to have a serious discussion about peak oil. Perhaps our interchange could serve as some sort of template for others to emulate.