Life after the oil crash is great material if you are truly interested in scientific analysis that the world may have peaked with oil supplies.
I think the problem becomes more interesting when we think about unexplored regions (earth and sea) for oil and how expensive oil could still be as business and government lay out vast sums of outlays to meet the ever rising demand for oil and to balance that against the environmental issues of climate change.
Once again, science may come to the rescue of humans analogous to the increase in crop yields that discredited the Malthusian theory of economics. Not so fast. Some scientists also think that crop yields have peaked as well. And making it more difficult is the fact that fuels are competing with agriculture escalating the prices of food and causing food shortages. We can't cry foul as yet but can't think silly either. How silly it was that the world never thought of the last two digits of the year thinking that the 90's would never turn to 00 and caused so much expense and panic to reprogram all computer systems. When corn was used for ethanol no one thought of rising food prices and food shortages.
What behooves me is that people think that the world has unlimited resources and that the atmosphere over their heads has unlimited capacity for garbage like CO2 emissions and other pollutants. It will be very interesting to see how the debate and discoveries unfold in the next few years on new technologies to drive automobiles and how people's behavior change as oil prices keep rising.
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