74, 298 barrels per day average. Time will tell if it is the all time peak, or a local maximum as we all should hope. Since I don't believe in fairy tale endings, I believe it is the peak peak... leaving us all in deep, deep yogurt. You get to guess the color! Interestingly, it took 3 years to identify 1971 as the peak in oil production in the US. Read Kevin Phillip's new book, Bad Money, for some thoughts on the political implications.
In Madison County, it has made farm planning much more difficult. Normally you use past history as a guide, but that has left some farmers this year without enough money to plant this year's crop. Farming costs are growing faster than grain prices, hard as that is to believe! Who knows what will happen next?
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