Well Eclipse with your certainty w.r.t. peak oil you should buy Nymex 6 year oil futures for approx. $60USD/barrel. You can then sell them in 2011 for $120 (a very conservative estimate based on how scarce you perceive oil to be). Assuming that you invest $6000 90% margined (not considered an uncommon amount of leverage in futures markets) you would receive $120,000 when you sold your position in 2011. Many of the proponents of oil peaking in the near-term should become very wealthy.
There is no downside risk, of course, because of the certainty of the science and the many left-leaning experts that claim peak oil is imminent. Why does this remind me of "the bet" between Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich that wound up being what some consider to be the greatest setback in the history of the environmentalist movement?
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