shortonoil wrote:The world's petroleum producers have been pumping the planet intensively for 159 years. They have always taken the best of what could be found; what's left is getting pretty crappy. We have now extracted about 40% of all the liquid hydrocarbons on the planet.
We have not. You obviously aren't even aware of the cumulative production or cumulative production plus reserves information matched to in-place estimates for the globe.
Not that you would know how to use it, but you need to get the best information available before you say something contradicted by the data. You do know what data is, don't you? First you get the best data, THEN you do your cherry picking and excluding what you want routine.
Do you have access to ANY of the information necessary to tackle this problem, or did you really just make up crap like this throughout?