Reply #28: You are deliberately conflating legitimate and illegitimate meanings [View All]

The factual existence of a probable peak in the production cycle of a finite resource is indisputable and is not the point being argued.

What we both know I'm talking about are those that used prepackaged, recycled junk science to make cockeyed claims about the state of the petroleum industry. There is no legitimate predictive literature on when we will experience "peak oil" because predicting the peak in advance IS IMPOSSIBLE. Especially when the methods used are TOTALLY BASED on PRODUCTION DATA yet totally disregard ALL input related to social and political variables affecting production. Combined with known reserve data, these exclusions assure that any claims we are "post peak" are equally spurious.

So I don't dispute the factual existence of natural phenomena, I just dispute that the speculations of the peak-oil internet 'circle-'have validity as a source of information on the topic.