I agree with JD 100% on this.  I'm starting to get ill with all this talk of transparency.  It's imperialism.  Nothing more, the US saying "We've burned up all our stuff, you tell us how much you have.  Because we're too pathetic to plan ahead and we're addicted to the stuff."

I said here--or somewhere--long ago that I think peak oil needs geological/economic models to demonstrate, for example, how difficult it will be to use tar sands and shale oil to meet our energy needs.  And a better understanding of future production is also useful.  But many at peakoil.com, have argued that we have the right to pull those numbers out of Saudi Arabia.

Sorry folks.  These are more arguments from whining little children who have eaten their cookies and now are demanding that the other kids declare how many cookies they have.

Transparency is not going to help us.  The world will slam into the limits and will have to adapt.  Hirsch gaps and whiners-for-transparency be damned.

indeed!

and all the whiners about "those who endanger our children", should wake up and realize WE are endangering our children, and have been for decades (if not longer), with endless consumption of globally created corporate "goods" along with our addiction to cheap oil.  not to mention the adoption of unsustainable economic systems, such as debt financing/banking and fiat currency.  we (govt., multinational corporations, the unquestioning public) all share the blame in this, and to finger the "untransparent" ones is merely scapegoating.  

Peak Oil seems to be a convienent excuse for imperialistic tendencies...subtle or not.