[bobbyboy]

An interesting graph courtesy of the EIA which I have annotated to point out the peaks:

AER 2005

Of course the current peaks may not turn out to be all time peaks. The coal peak is perhaps the most interesting as it is seldom (if ever) discussed despite it not having been surpassed for 8 years thus far; is this a long enough rear view mirror? Geothermal, Solar and Wind are currently too small to make it on to the EIA's graph with current peaks in 1993, 1996 and 2005 respectively.

[Jack]

A most interesting graph! Thank you for posting it.

[seahorse2]

Yes, pictures speak a thousand words.

Thanks Bobbyboy

[mekrob]

Is this end-use or total consumption (for US production)?

[jeezlouise]

If you let your eyes go unfocused and let your brain take in all the graphs at once, a "peak everything" seems to emerge about, oh, now-ish.

Hey, it's no less scientific then what professional "economists" seem to be doing these days.

[roadcage]

You have to be careful with guvmnt stuff. Otherwise you would interepet

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/ipsr/21.xls

as world oil supply peaking in 2nd qtr 2005.
And of course we "know" that can't be right, cause GW sez so.

Sorry about the broken link, but this is what was displayed in my address bar when I originaly opened the file

It can be found at the bottom of the petroleum page of the eia site
in the international Data section

titled "World Oil Supply"

[snowhope]

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/ipsr/t21.xls

yep, looks like we are post peak!

[Geko45]

I've been watching this for awhile. Here is my plot of the monthly world oil supply (t14.xls instead of t21.xls). More like a plateau than a peak, but could this be the "bumpy plateau" that we all posit will occur?

EIA Monthly World Oil Supply

[Frank]

I wonder how much of that is artificially constrained? US consumption actually dropped a tad in 2005 (per BP) and I haven't heard any stories about gas lines ....... yet.

[caliginousface]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Frank', 'I') wonder how much of that is artificially constrained? US consumption actually dropped a tad in 2005 (per BP) and I haven't heard any stories about gas lines ....... yet.