Peak oil denial: How does this help?

http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2012-04-03/peak-oil-denial-how-does-help

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A few inconvenient reminders:

•The U.S. currently uses somewhere in the neighborhood of 18 million barrels of oil each and every day
•Our own production is currently in the neighborhood of 50%-60% of the peak we last touched more than forty years ago
•Depending on the source one relies upon, we still import eight to ten million barrels per day despite these magnificent efforts in the Bakken and elsewhere
•Meanwhile, conventional oil fields are being depleted day after day, so getting back to “even” must happen first before we can start counting on unconventional, inferior quality, more-expensive-to-produce oil from the tar sands and shale.

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