Five or ten years gained by new technolgy will help us transition to solar, wind and nuclear so that the world and modern civilisation can survive and prosper.

Sorry, but 5 or ten years more time also means 5 to 10 years more population growth, more arable land degradation and water waste.

If new finds are supposed to make a difference for the transition, they must more than compensate for the rapidly worsening general conditions.

Is there any plan how to make this a dure thing to happen?

My favourite wisdom: "Hoping just means you don't have a plan!"

   Davidyson

Now if only the right to vote in the North, i.e. Ohio, could be guaranteed, and once guaranteed, in only one could guarantee that the votes will be counted.

Anyway that aside, I think you are wrong to argue that Peak Oilers should rest the case on the optomistic scenario.  People will go back to sleep, assured that the unnamed "they' will have adequate time to "come up with something".

The Peak Oil Event is on, now.  We could use the date at which the historic decline in wholesale/retail prices reversed in around Y2K as a starting point for the event.

But the most important point, as I see it, is the shift in the cost of producing oil/energy.  Here I think even Colin Campbell has made a mistake by claiming as he has on several occasions that the cost of production has not risen (he is making a point in relation to oil company profits and I appreciate that).

Even if it is true, for example, that technological advance means that deep water oil is being produced at a lower cost x-number of years after deep water began, the marginal cost of a barrel of oil has risen from the days of on-shore and shallow off-shore, because deep water remains a more expensive process.  Likewise with tar pit sludge.  Likewise with ultra-deep water.  Likewise with the rest of the now 'attractive' low-quality sulpher and metal laden sludge.
Likewise with natural gas as smaller and smaller finds require more and more effort.  Likewise with the increased military burden.  

This all adds up to more and more of the economy dedicated to the production of energy, in other words, a shift of resources to you guys in the industry (and the military), away from the rest of us and whatever it is we do (education, healthcare, entertainment, etc).  

It is a scenario from which escape could only occur if the rest of the economy was steadily increasing its real leverage (I don't accept the integrity of the GDP metric)  per BTU at a rate which outstripped the transfer of economic effort, resources and opportunity from the non-energy producing sector to the energy producing sector of the economy.

It is very difficult to measure the economic rebalancing, simply because the leverage (efficiency, effectiveness...) per btu is hard to quantify.  So to some extent we have to squint our eyes to discern the outline of what is happening (Einstein might have called it intuition). But it is happening and it is the essence of the Peak Oil event.

20 years ago energy-efficient refrigertors were introduced and today we have the Prius. Whoopdee doo! Where is a program to buy up necessary right of ways for light rail?  To install high-speed intercity bullet trains? What happened to the EV and why are we right this minute chewing up ag lands around our major cities?

I agree with other posters: this GOM find is a diversion. A media trick to sell advertising. Sounds like the much-hyped Kashagan find in 1998 that promised 200-300 bb and turned into 13. That was a disappointment by an order of magnitude. Is there any doubt this will be also?

But rather than just sit back steweing about the fact that the government is not doing anything, how many here are actually doing something themselves?  I'm not talking about educating other people, although that is clearly noble and necessary, I am talking about actually taking tangible, physical steps to reduce one's own reliance on oil.  None of us can come close to solving the entire problem of peak oil on our own, but there are things each and every one of us can do to make a difference and be a part of the solution.  

There are too many here who have adopted a fatalistic attitude.  They go around pontificating at length about the inevitable "power down", "die off", and the ride back to "Olduvai gorge", and otherwise do jack to make a tangible difference.  Here's a little secret about fatalism: it's a cop out.  It's a lazy way of justifying not doing anything.  If you just assume everything will fail anyway, it's easy just to kick back and relax without feeling guilty about not actually doing anything to make a difference yourself.  

I am speaking to everyone who is here, reading this site, in saying that you have a special responsibility.  You have this responsibility because you are aware of the problem.  Just as if you come across someone bleeding in the street, it's your responsibility to call for help, not to walk on by and complain that others were unaware of his need for assistance.  

None of us can claim ignorance of what is going to happen.  So, it is our burden to not only advocate for change on a government and societal level, but also to make changes on a personal level.  And by that I mean doing whatever is within your power to move us toward a new energy paradigm.  Install solar panels or a windmill to generate power.  Consider converting your car to an EV.  Find ways to minimized your use of power around the house.  Walk or bike to work, or take public transportation.  Not everyone has the same means, but we all have some ability to make a difference, especially if we sacrifice (and how can we ask others to sacrifice if we are unwilling to do so ourselves?).  

I'm sure many here have already done what they can, but I would encourage those who haven't to try to do something, or many things, to make a tangible difference.  Any changes you make to save power, or generate power, or otherwise pollute and waste less, are infinitely more valuable than arguing about the end of the world as we know it, or the collapse of capitalism.  Let's stop imagining how the modern world will end, and instead start imagining how the world can continue on, albeit in a somewhat different form.