1976 Hubbert Clip

kind of depressing that this vid only got so few hits.

You'd think that the end game of a resource usage which governs our lifestyle would provoke a fear response...

I don't know he was optimistic or pessimistic. 40 billions barrels per year?

it now appears that peak oil is sensational myth - oil, like God, is forever ..

If you believe that, you will believe anything. The real world is underpinned by a very unforgiving reality where wishful thinking is just that; science is not an ideology and is not the same as belief based on dreams and wishful thinking. But if it makes you happy, dream on.

But can't we just make cars bigger so their gas tanks can hold more oil? If that doesn't work, perhaps we can kill more Muslims? Ban abortions? Eat Spotted Owls?

Amen. Oil will NEVER run out because it's inexhaustible, like renewables.

yeah , also people dumbness is forever

Apparently so is stupidity.

money are not the problem energy need to take this oil is problem whot the poit drill from place where you have to use 2 barel of oil to get 1 out, beter dont drill and find diferent source of energy.

I think this is compounded by the fact that it flies - so completely in the faces of pop-ideologies like Objectivism , Supply-sided economics and to a non-trivial extent the underpinning justifications for the "Neoconservative" geopolitical worldview.