Thank you Prof Goose for posting this.  I am starting my re-read of Future Energy.

Puzzling to me is that CERA has stated that "Peak oil theory is garbage"  while Yergin was a collaborator on chapter two of Future Energy: "After the Peak: The Threat of Hostile Oil"  where the peaking of US oil production in 1970 as you mentioned above is the key point of the chapter.

I'm wondering is Robert Stobaugh is still around and what his views would be today.  Yergins name was list second on the credits so I think that Stobaugh was carrying the load for this research at the time.  The message of this chapter is in contrast to the  issue being barely touched in The Prize.

Seems to me he is still about. In 2003 at least. https://aib.msu.edu/fellow.asp?FellowID=53
This site has contact details, perhaps he should be contacted and asked to comment?  http://pine.hbs.edu/external/facPersonalShow.do?pid=12315

cheers

He has quite an impressive and interesting biography - and the email link is there...what do you think- invite him here? Heading Out, Professor Goose- what do you think?  

I am not an academician and would probably not have the right approach.  I will contact him if no one else does, however within the limited time that I have.

I think he may have an interesting perspective that could be helpful.

Sorry about the mistaken Identity- Thanks Heading Out for the post!