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Government's Forecast Oil Prices

The government have responded to my question about Oil Price Contingency Planning. They have a BERR Page with forecast oil prices. Extracting from that table the following prices in USD per blue barrel for each year and assumption are:
YearLowCentralHigh"High High"
200773737373
2010456585107
2015456890150

They dont "feel the need to build contingency plans specifically for peak oil".

Well we already are above "high high".

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