The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

[OakesCS]

Contrary to Mr. Yergin’s assertion that advocates of Peak Oil have been wrong at every turn, six years of annual global production data show flat to declining crude oil and total petroleum liquids production data

nicely cheery picked time range.

http://www.eia.gov/ipm/supply.html last spreadsheet has world totals from 1970-2009. 2010 data are not finalized but 1st 3 qtrs look to be 86 M BBL/day. don't know where brown obtained his numbers but they are quite light (as well as cheery picked to fit his hypothesis).