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Hubbert peak

Another great-looking article that I just stumbled upon after a Pump question on when the oil will finally run out. Nothing to do with me - well done everyone. -- ALoan (Talk) 11:47, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Comments. Close to supporting. I made a lot of copyedits, hopefully all good. There are a couple things left that I couldn't resolve quickly and wanted to discuss. 1) The Non OPEC, Non FSU graph seems to be horribly POV. It has great data, but after the vertical line where their data is actually, the severe downturn is pure prediction. That is possible, but certainly not indisputable. The data up to that line show little to no actual overall decline. It shows lots of individual declines, but overal increase primarily. That is worrisome POV. If a graph were available adding in OPEC and the former Soviet countries, then that could possibly balance the POV properly. Or maybe a graph showing much later prediction for the peak point or a slower decline, or even a graph of past predictions that did not come to pass. 2) The structure works really well for the table fo contents, but when reading through the fact that alternatives to oil is one of the major possible implications of a world peak is entirely missed until you get to that section. I think what is needed is a short section in the implications section stating more clearly that increased use of alternatives is a serious and even highly likely scenario. 3) Putting "Catastrophe" as the first implication of peak oil seems to be stating that as a fact instead of one potential option. Maybe title the section potential implications or something to balance that out. - Taxman 14:25, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

• Comment: Need to look at tenses. A number of things are suggested as happening in the future but have already passed - for example "In 2004, world consumption of crude oil is expected to surpass 82 million barrels per day". There's a similar problem in the summary, which says that the peak year will only be known once it has passed and then has 2007 as one of the suggestions. --194.73.130.132 14:43, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Object for now - Seems to be oversectioned (one paragraph stub sections are hardly ever appropriate) and as a result the TOC is overwhelming. Consider either combining sections and/or make the 'Implications of a world peak' section into its own article and leave a 6 to 10 paragraph summary of that here. Dividing like that will allow for further expansion of the stub sections at the new article. --mav 16:43, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Negative. This article needs extreme editing. It's bloated with off-topic information, speculation, and opinion. Less is more. We don't get paid by the word, people. Mirror Vax 22:40, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)