1) Shale production wasn't supposed to exist according to peakers who know nothing about geology, even though posters at this site knew about it.
2) It wasn't supposed to amount to much once it did exist, according to the likes of blogging experts like Berman.
3) The EIA was blasted for proclaiming it would make so much, by the same people who did 1) and 2).
4) Turns out, the EIA consistently underestimated the entire thing through at least 2016, and those involved in 1) and 2) who then chimed in on 3) turned out to be the usual suspects, i.e. those who know nothing about resource economics.
5) Your reference doesn't even recognize the sine wave of oil production, here, or in the world at large, even though it is now obvious that is exactly the pattern that has to be accounted for, and;
6) Thank GOD we have real energy experts in this country to discuss this stuff, because reporters appear to know as little about energy economics as peakers sometimes.
Plant Thu 27 Jul 2023 "Personally I think the IEA is exactly right when they predict peak oil in the 2020s, especially because it matches my own predictions."
Plant Wed 11 Apr 2007 "I think Deffeyes might have nailed it, and we are just past the overall peak in oil production. (Thanksgiving 2005)"