Kenneth Deffeyes, Princeton emeritus professor of geology, author of Hubbert's Peak and Beyond Oil, has worked in and studied the oil industry his whole life. This weekend he wrote the following (excerpt):

In the January 2004 Current Events on this web site, I predicted that world oil production would peak on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 2005. In hindsight, that prediction was in error by three weeks. An update using the 2005 data shows that we passed the peak on December 16, 2005.............

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