AdamB » Mon 15 Mar 2021, 19:41:28 DesuMaiden wrote:really this news is no surprise, given that there literally isn't any new oil to be found on this planet. I seem to recall that one being said before, in different forms. Jimmy Carter used that angle to declare that the world would run out of the stuff by the end of the 1980's, and we all know how that went. Then "peak" got substituted in for "running out" because the malthusians figured that would allow them to discount all the new reserves that kept showing up, in order to declare the Rapture all over again.