Matthew Simmons on Peak Oil

Matthew Simmons, chairman of energy industry investment bank Simmons & Co. in Houston, spoke to Bloomberg News in Jan 2007 about how we need to prepare for peak oil now. Not only is production lessening across the planet, the vast bulk of US offshore fleet of drilling rigs is at or near the end of its lifespan and new ones aren’t being built fast enough to replace them.

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