Reply #18: I Agree About The Plateau. Higher Prices->More Development

[Strelnikov_]

and exploitation of marginal and previously abandoned resources. These could make up for the decline of the super-giants, for a while.

Guess the point I was trying to make is that we are going to see a significant decline in oil consumption by 2025 no matter what we do. You can't consume oil you don't have.

And yes, as far as I'm concerned, the looming energy crises is the only issue, and the governments mismanagement has been criminal.

Population overshoot and societal collapse has happened before, and it will happen again.