You don't need to read the Economist. All you have to do is look at the numbers from DOE themselves, and make up your own mind.<p>Personally I believe we are nowhere near peak oil, due to Bakken, the unexplored resources off USA coastal shorelines, ANWR drilling that should be undertaken, etc.<p>Plus for natural gas we have the undersea hydrates that we haven't quite figured out how to mine cheaply (yet).