It is easy to understand why some folks, including the nattering nabobs of the mainstream media, might somehow mistake the current glut of oil for evidence that Peak Oil is fiction or never existed at all. This would be a tragic error but as we see in today’s Denver Post editorial (‘ The Death Knell for Peak Oil’ , p. 19A) it is definitely being made. The Post’s editor gushes that the “ world is now awash in oil “- with Iran set to add its millions of barrels next, and in effect: “ It’s as if the whole world were conspiring to bury the tattered remains of the ‘peak oil’ thesis so popular a few years ago .” Nowhere in his misplaced screed, not in one single paragraph, does this genius tie the consistently low economic growth rates in the advanced nations to the reduction of oil’s efficiency. […]