If you ever find yourself wondering why some folks seem to be so
worked up about the need to reshape our cities to be less fossil
fuel-dependent and never shut up about how spending billions on
car mega-infrastructure like tunnels and bridges is a very bad
idea, perhaps the opinion of the U.S. Military might help
explain it:   So states the Joint Operating Environment 2010
report from the US Joint Forces Command, published last month.
Total output today is 86 MBD (million barrels per day), so that
10 MBD represents a shortfall of 12 percent. Not trivial. In as
little as four years from now.  That view is corroborated by
U.S. Department of Energy, as reported by Le Monde:  "Glen
Sweetnam, who heads the publication of DoEs annual International
Energy Outlook, agrees that what he identifies as a possible
decline of liquid fuels production between 2011 and 2015 could
be the first stage of the 'undulating plateau' which will start
'once maximum world oil production is reached.'"  Here's the
picture according to th