And what I keep trying to tell you is that even if we tap into the oil shale and the other as yet inaccessible sources then all you've done is doubled the available reserves. So instead of 40 years, we're talking 80 years and that's if we can suck up every possible drop and the current consumption rate remains unchanged!

Now if you wish to argue that there is some source that the Society of Petroleum Engineers and a host of other respectable industry organizations haven't counted, then feel free to do so. And please understand when I scoff loudly at your estimates as opposed to the expert's estimates.

If you wish to claim that demand isn't going to increase, then you may do that as well. It's rather absurd; but the White Queen managed to believe six impossible things before breakfast so I suppose you can too.

So, I'm willing to listen to your proofs that the sky isn't falling. Enlighten me. Show me the opinions of the experts that there is no coming shortage of oil and that the peak hypothesis is untrue; and I promise I'll give them all due consideration.