Picking a single day for "the peak" destroys the credibility of the discussion around oil supply. "Peak oil day" relegates the important discussion of oil supply challenges to the same realm as the cults wearing all the same white sneakers and predicting a particular day when they will all be beamed up to a spacecraft. If the previous peak is surpassed by a single barrel, for whatever reason, then prepare to be ridiculed and for all efforts to be debased. Thanks.

I'm an admirer of Heinberg, but this is a valid point when you stop to think about it. There's a lesson in what's happened to parts of the green and climate change movements. Slogans [edit: and hoopla] are perhaps necessary, but we need to be very careful not to start actually thinking in slogans.