Kings County Record: Worried about “peak oil?” The International Energy Agency’s annual report, The World Energy Outlook 2008, admits for the first time that “although global oil production in total is not expected to peak before 2030, production of conventional oil…is projected to level off towards the end of the projection period.” When The Guardian’s environmental columnist, George Monbiot, pressed Birol on that opaque phrase, the actual date turned out to be 2020. The IEA’s previous reports, which …