Leonardo Maugeri (cited in the article) wrote an article in Scientific American last year on this: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=squeezing-m

Leonardo Maugeri (cited in the article) wrote an article in Scientific American last year on this: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=squeezing-more-oil-edit-this http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=squeezing-m... I'm skeptical of his plan at the end (tax oil globally at just the right amount to blunt climate change and encourage alternatives without making unsubsidized food-crop biofuels viable) for many obvious reasons, but I see nothing wrong with his points about oil itself.