Reply #9: You beat me to the punch. Thank you for your non-hysterical reply

[ThomWV]

These "Peak Oil" alamrists drive me nuts. The end of the oil age won't be much different than the end of the age of the horse. There are plenty of horses around to this day, they are simply no longer important for performing work. The same will happen to oil as an energy source, it will simply be replaced as more efficient and economical energy sources supplant it and as our use of energy becomes more rational.