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Yeah, sorry but peak oil isn't something that happens on a particular day or hour. There's tons of evidence that we actually already are past peak oil. We're now already getting oil out of tar sands, and if that's even close to economically sensible at all, then it's obvious that the cheap, easy oil is past its peak.

Anyone who thought that peak oil meant immediate real-world decline in availability of gasoline would be deluded. We have too much at stake in our oil-dependent system to let that happen. We'll screw with tax incentives and government systems and all sorts of crazy things and get at the hardest-to-get oil until we get way way way past the peak.

We probably will never hit the point of being on the far tail end of the oil curve because the pollution and climate mayhem will take over before that, so we'll have to stop burning all the oil for environmental reasons long before we run out of oil to burn. But that doesn't mean we haven't peaked our accessible, cheap oil options.

P.S. I have no clue about the voting here. I typically don't see downvote options, and I'm pretty sure you can't tell who downvoted you, so you seem to just be speculating.