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Pardon me for not having as much interest in the data itself as you, rb, but I do have an interest in the implications and consequences of it.
It's becoming clear that there is trending resulting from a general concern with oil supply. Look at the increasing production of hybrid autos; the electric car is being rolled out. But this is on the consumer level. Industry and commerce will need to innovate. When it becomes too expensive to ship overseas, what will we do? I foresee new investment and development in alternative sources of transportation energy, namely, electricity and hydrogen. But this means an increased demand for sources such as wind, solar, hydro, and nuclear...and possibly coal.
I'm more interested in the innovation of technologies that will make the transition from oil to something else. I don't buy any doom & gloom about the end times. We're too ambitious for that. We're too connected through technology (communications) and economy (globalization) to have us simply fall flat and have our world turn into something out of Mad Max.
As the OP article suggests, this won't happen overnight. Not all of us are blind, either.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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