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Deffeyes: "We're speeding up the decline." via Black Gold
My goal for ringing him up was to see if anything had changed from a year ago. With increasing demand in China and India, record prices, the war, was there any way -- possibly -- that the situation wasn't as bleak as it seems?

Nope. If anything, it's worse.

"We're burning the candle at both ends. We're speeding up the decline," he tells me.

Deffeye's Hubbert's Peak is the first book I read on Peak Oil. So I'll cast in my lot with the Prof.

Peak oil this year or bust!