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¿Question #468?
ScottBecker: When will global peak oil production occur?

oldhoss: It's probably past us now.
Felimid: If we keep screwing up the world's overall environment looking for it, dredging it up, and processing it, definitely not in my lifetime (I'm 43 now).
joebelanger: In the year 2000.
kathleenryan: I believe this will occur in less than a year.
cgund: It's behind us.
gmcash: dont know
bulldozers: Already did
aleo09: never
DHEK: Dunno... but apparently it's going to occur pretty soon.
Butterbane: when it does
PsyJam: Soon, i hope.
GrimJester: Some of us have been preaching doom and gloom for a long time and we don't appreciate everyone jumping on the bandwagon all of a sudden.
dmomo: Tuesday, 2021
falloutfan: I think it's a matter of desire rather than capability. I'd say the answer is: When the people producing the oil want it to peak.
Mordachai: Right after the peak of vinegar has been reached.
dietevil: Before 2020
Whirlinghurly: We've been at peak for quite awhile
davedanger: 2096 BC
Kazin: Production or comsumption? I think were past the peak of production..
Favre4MVP: tomorrow
Igloo cool: It hasn't?
ZombyDawg: Dang, I missed it.
Dr. No: it has
GI Joe: 40 years
GuyHill: hasnt it happened already?
javelin98: I think it already has.
Regault: Within a few years
erli: It already has
Cerebus: 2010.
GilvanBlight: I think it may have already happened.
Cavedog_pdx: Right before the next great efficiency breakthrough.
Mikebegeta: after we switch to electric
rdmasters: The local independant retailer is going for global monopoly? Interesting.
Bahamut-X: some day
Lord_Prussian: Maybe in this century as a guess
lwheeler: 2017
shotokanguy: Pretty damn soon, if it hasn't already. Oh wait, George Bush is going to drill in Alaska. I'm sure that will bring gas down to 50 cents a gallon for the rest of our lives.
skrutsch: soon
Randy Cox: I think that's past
mandj2001: nope.....just like peak consumption will never occur
scriptorum: Four. No, five! Five! Wait, huh?
berserkley: just after the oil companies figure out how to meter the Sun
2amp: happened already?
Jern: Has been
heli: I don't have enough information.
pronoblem: It already has.
puffinge: Way too soon.
mrbeankc: About 5:30 pm tomorrow
Karlsen: There are those that say "This has already happened"
m_r_tyler: Like you really think one of us would know the answer to that. Ha!
kennyb: last thursday
isolated: 2021
AlorielLelyn: Unpredictable, may have already happened.
gnomehome: I don't know
dakarp: If I knew that, I'd be busy investing.
tragicpoet: We've past our prime
wef71: I'd like to see it in my lifetime. Hopefully such a bad thing would force a lot of good.
echoota: I'm kind of torn. I'd like to see it happen soon because it would be cool to have a radical transformation of society to occur, however only as long as it isn't a drag on my life ;)
CDRodeffer: 1973
Blackwind: sometime soon
Bluenose: Tuesday, possibly around tea time.
DangerMouse: No idea, but I just had my Toyota Prius in for it's 30k mile checkup. It's coming, sooner or later.
sdownin: Sometime in 2010. Then the realizations will hit that the oil supply is dwindling quickly and that removing all the oil from the ground is having serious geological and techtonic consequences. Then the rush for alternate power sources will begin in earnest.
UhhhClem: You're soaking in it.
geberus: yesterday, or tomorrow.
BobDodgerBlue: About another 10-20 years, or when alternative fuel becomes economical
chaddyboy_2000: In 50 jerks of the cow teat.
tp_ryhansen: tomorrow
jaredh: Already did.
Shakar: Did it not already?
funkhauser: 2009.
klellingson: I do not know enough to answer this question
snoozefest: not soon enough
jttm: When Saddam returns to power! hehhe... who knows?
queequeg: dunno
djlg: In the near future.
Aldie: If I know the answer can I make money?
LudesFactor: hopefully tomorrow
MisterCranky: As soon as they squeeze the very last drop out of global peak.
Der Das: When global oil demand occurs.
HBGlover: Who cares? The future is NUKES!
CortexBomb: Hopefully soon, I'm all for the end of suburbia
TamiWhitsett: who cares?
seppo21: Now
Bearcat89: The day before the wells run dry.
Flyspeck23: 1970.
ptper: 39034
nexttothemoon: When the supplies of acne medications dwindle and the worlds supply of teenagers are squeezed...pimple by pimple...we will have a neverending supply of hormone enriched pimple oils...we know not the time nor season...but the day is coming.
ValJor: In the next two or three decades. But by then we'll either have nanotechnology or the Singularity and any one of these two will make our current worries look silly
skelebone: Duh.