What if Daniel Yergin is wrong?

Daniel Yergin is the oil optimist that peak oil believers love to hate. He is president of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), perhaps the most well-respected energy consulting firm in the world. He is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the best-selling history of oil, The Prize, which was also made into a PBS series. And, he is friendly, upbeat, calmly reassuring, and above all, quotable. Yergin's smiling face stands is stark contrast to the dour visages of the peak oil crowd as they warn of an imminent peak and subsequent collapse in oil production, an event that will shake our civilization to its very foundations.

( Full story here )