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wffurr on Nov 12, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: U.S. Oil Output to Overtake Saudi Arabia’s by 2020

Physical peak oil is uninteresting. Economic peak oil is much more relevant.

Look in to EROEI for a rigorous treatment of the idea.

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