My guess is this will not be covered by the media. It requires more than a soundbite to provide proper perspective and, more to the point, the facts, if true, are particularly troubling.

I can't name a big, respected, newspaper that has entertained the possibility of genuine oil scarcity. Has Simmons been interviewed by the NYT or WashPost? Have Deffeye's or Kunstler's books been reviewed?  

There was an article back in Augest in the NYT sunday magazine by Peter Maass  called "The Breaking Point".  It was one of the better articles I have read in the mainstream media dealing with PO. Maass reffrences Matt Simmons book in the article.   Reading this article is the main reason I started paying attention to TOD.

The NYT is charging for the complet article, but I found a copy on the web here.  

See former Secretary Schlesinger's piece in this Winter's National Interest.

Simmons is mentioned more times than Daniel Yergin is just about every news source there is these days mentioning oil.

Peter Maass has been mentioned. He actually wrote abother one about a month ago in the NYT Mag.