http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=42 "Former US Energy Secretary Dr James Schlesinger today claimed that the intellectual arguments over peak oil had been won, and that in effect âwe are all peakists nowâ. In the keynote speech at the first day of an oil depletion conference hosted by the Association for the Study of Peak Oil in Cork, Schlesinger said that oil industry executives now privately concede that the world faces an imminent oil production peak, and argued that a recent report by the US oil industry grouping the National Petroleum Council constituted âa backdoor admission that in the next decade or two we face a moment of truthâ. In a wide-ranging interview with Lastoilshock.com, Dr Schlesinger - who was also Defence Secretary and CIA Director - explains why he thinks âthe battle is over, the peakists have wonâ, and discusses the delusions of US energy policy, Iraq, Iran and $100 oil."