Not if, but when: Oil production peak will bring hard transition
Date: Monday, September 27 @ 14:30:16 PDT
Topic: Production; Extraction; Exploration
A Register-Guard Editorial
By a happy coincidence, the day after The Wall Street Journal featured Colin Campbell on its front page with a headline characterizing him as a "doomsayer," one of Campbell's closest collaborators visited Eugene.
Jean Laherrère, like Campbell, is a petroleum geologist, and together they wrote an influential article in the March 1998 Scientific American magazine titled "The End of Cheap Oil." They believe world oil production will soon peak, ending an era of economic expansion fueled by ever-increasing supplies.
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