Oil-Finder wrote:^
When I say "non-peak oiler" I mean someone who doesn't think oil production will peak any time in the foreseeable future. Or if it does, it will peak because a better alternative has been found.
Who knows - maybe they'll perfect a viable electric car someday and develop fusion power, and therefore oil production will decline because oil demand will decline. A "non-peak oiler" might hold a view like that. And/or perhaps they believe there is still another several trillion barrels of recoverable oil left in the ground, and therefore we don't have to worry about oil production peaking for a very, very long time.
Oil-finder I'm afraid you are very alone on this issue- when you say we don't have to worry about oi production peaking for a very very long time I wonder about how much research you have done on this issue. Even the most conservative folks suggest that we have a couple decades at best and most people who are realistic say we are in the plateau phase right now and perhaps have only a few years to go before serious declines set in.
So we're talking a range of 15-20 years between hardcore "doomers" and wild-eyed idealists. 20 years. Not a very very long time. In that view you will find next to no one...because there is no way that can be emprically validated. Again- Chevron, BP, even Exxon, the IEA, even CERA, are acknowledging imminent Peak Oil. Its not a question of when, its a question of impact...
If you want to be a good cornucopian, read some of John Denver's posts. He believes we can transition to an electric/nuclear world in the time we have left.
But the idea that oil production will not peak for a very very long time? I'm afraid you need to research the topic a bit more.