Its actually much worse than that the consumer is already fairly certain high oil prices are a con game by the oil companies the recent price drops will make it almost impossible to get consumers to believe in peak oil.

This is very insightful. I'm a PO believer. Most people here are too. But the fact of the matter is that we are tiny percentage. My business partner thinks oil company profits are totally obscene. The "Photo of the Day" in my local paper is a picture of a gas station sign advertising the first sub $2/gal price here in town for about as long as anyone can remember. Nowhere is this IEA report mentioned.

My totally unscientific survey suggests to me that 90% of the country thinks that oil problems are over -- afterall, gas is only $2 now. 8% don't really care because they either don't drive or are so rich that price is irrelevant. 1% are one or both of perpetually stoned/psychotic and are simply not capable of caring. Of the remaining 1%, a few are POers concerned for the future, a few are POers hoping hoping for calamity due to religious beliefs, environmental notions, and/or a form of self-directed hatred (where self=nation) or anger toward the "rich bastard oil moguls who deserve to be taken down a few notches." A few simply defy categorization.

Anyway, in my not so humble, but not so valuable or nationally voluble opinion, we won't see any recognition of PO till gas approaches $4/gal again, or it isn't available in sufficient quantities. Even for me, with gas this cheap, I've stopped hypermiling, ride my motorcycle far less, and think very little about running out for an errand. This of course, does not bode well for the future as my behaviors are certainly compounded by millions.