Below are some excerpts from the Energy Wire article by Colin Sullivan titled “Has ‘peak oil’ gone the way of the Flat Earth Society?” As the headline suggests and as the graph above helps to illustrate, I think the answer … read more >

From The Economist: “The theory of peak oil, the idea that global crude production may be at or near its limit, is based on the work of M. King Hubbert, a geologist working for Shell in the 1950s. His prediction … read more >

From Vaclav Smil’s article today at The American, titled “Memories of Peak Oil“: When the final figures for the fourth quarter of 2012 are in, the world will have a new crude oil production record: the total for the first … read more >

The idiocy of “peak oil” and other claims of pending resouce depletion have a long history, dating in many cases back to the 1800s. ”Peak nitwitery” experienced an especially strong revival in the 1960s and 1970s, thanks to Paul Ehrlich and his 1968 book … read more >

Here’s one more reason why Duke economist Mike Munger was correct when he wrote several years ago that “of all the idiotic things that people believe, the whole ‘peak oil’ thing has to be right up there.”  Thanks to new, … read more >