For example, here's a paper from 1997 that says "decline in world oil production rate surely will occur well before the year 2020 and possibly before 2010." http://hubbert.mines.edu/news/Hatfield_97-4.pdf
Most oil executives have been perfectly well aware of the situation for a long, long time. It's politicians and their public that doesn't have a clue.
the pols are the ones guarding the bridge of understanding from the awakening plebs, while the fat cats make a getaway with the loot...
bla bla serious commitment...bla bla...time for action, not words, bla bla,
meanwhile continuing suicidal policies that perpetuate the status quo, till the last drop is squeezed...
ignorance is impotence... ~Government budget deficits are not nearly as dangerous as the deficits we have created in vital and complex natural systems.~ Naomi Klein.
