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Posted on 12/28/2025 6:15:48 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Peak oil once struck fear into policymakers, businesses and consumers as a looming moment when the world might suck the last drops of black gold from the ground, like a straw reaching the bottom of a milkshake.
The idea was popularized in the 1950s by geologist M. King Hubbert, who warned that US oil production would follow a bell‑shaped curve and eventually hit an unavoidable peak as fields matured and declined.
Climate change has flipped the narrative. Instead of the fear of scarcity, the debate now centers on when demand will finally peak as the shift to electric vehicles (EV) and other cleaner energy gathers pace.
At the same time, political pushback, from delays to combustion‑engine car bans to rollbacks of EV subsidies, is casting doubt on how fast that transition from fossil fuels will actually happen.
For all the debate about when oil demand will top out, the distance between governments' climate promises and the policies they are delivering remains wide and growing. Only a handful of countries have built durable frameworks to accelerate the shift to clean energy, including Norway’s EV policies.
By contrast, the United States under President Donald Trump has moved to expand domestic oil and gas production, weaken federal climate regulations and scale back support for EVs, which analysts say will likely slow the global shift away from fossil fuels.
Jeff Colgan, a political science professor at Brown University told DW that the Trump administration is not only undoing the efforts of his predecessor, Joe Biden, to support US green industrial policy. More fundamentally, Colgan said, the Trump administration has been "attacking" the science and institutions in the US government that have fostered climate policy.
"That has implications not only for US environmental policy, but will have ripple effects around the world," he said.
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Oil is abiotic.
Norway doesn’t count. Norway is irrelevant.
There are only about 5+ million Norwegians
There are less people in Norway than many large world cities.
This so called “Fossil fuel” might reach a peak but hydrocarbons will continue to be produced by Mother Gaia.
I am having a hard time believing dinosaurs roamed the earth 5000 feet below the 5000 foot deep seabed. On the other hand hydrogen and carbon can be found there.
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Yeah yeah. They claimed we were in terminal decline since the 1970s. Then we developed fracking and horizontal drilling and supply grew steadily. And no, sorry to break it to your Gaia Worshiping doom mongers, Shale oil is nowhere close to exhaustion and won’t be for hundreds of years. US Oil production reached all time highs in 2025. If you Yurps want to sacrifice your economies to Gaia, go ahead. It will be only you who is left shivering in the dark. Do not expect us or anybody else to be that stupid.
I am no scientist, but I believe that we haven’t scratched the surface of how much oil and gas is out there, the only issue is getting it out of the ground profitably. Fracking has a made the recovery of hundreds of millions of barrels of oil possible, in 15-20 years new technology will allow more and more fossil fuels available profitably.
The reason oil and natural gas are in such demand is that they are inexpensive as compared to alternatives. A big part of the cost is their relatively small footprint. Oil and natural gas are very compact in energy, and thus easy to move from one place to another. They are also durable, and can be easily stored.
Coal (still) has advantages. We, Canada, Australia, China and India have tremendous reserves of coal. Here in the U.S., open-pit mining continues to be competitive. When burned in a western furnace, we make sure the emissions of burning coal are reasonably free of sulphur dioxide and other such pollutants.
Perhaps surprisingly, China’s interest in electric cars is mostly to run cars on electricity from coal-fired furnaces (not to run cars on electricity from wind or solar).
The Democrats have problems with the physics and economics of reality. They live in fantasy worlds of their own construction. Don’t trust them. They are delusional.
And, the EV industry has gone bust...
EVs Were a $30 Billion Loser for Ford
"Ford took an estimated $13 billion loss on electric vehicles over the past three years and is taking an additional $19.5 billion hit to scale down their aggressive EV push, which was meant to please the regulatory and climate apparatchiks of the previous presidential administration."
https://enjoyer.com/evs-were-a-30-billion-loser-for-ford/
Most of the “fossil” fuels in the Permian Basin were algae and plant material from 300 to 500 million years ago.
Dinosaurs as the source of oil was a marketing ploy by Sinclair.
Norway has plenty of hydropower for the 5M residents so they can EV to their hearts’ content. They sell their oil to the stupid EU countries.
“They are delusional.”
No. They want control. If carbon was totally eliminated they would have a problem with nuclear plants, dams, solar farms, or windmills. It would never end.
Environazis hate freedom.
lol, that comment should be enough to make any thinking person roll their eyes in exasperation at the obvious hypocrisy, but..,no.
It doesn’t.
Fossil fuels is a term to make people think there is a very limited supply when we are floating on oceans of it.
There is no “habit” problem. The oil is there to be used until it runs out and people are forced to find substitutes. The free market can manage this process, and it’s timing, much better than our governing elites, who live to control everything to the max.
Exactly. That is why the left uses the term ‘climate change’. It covers ALL possibilities.
Fossil fuel is a life line for modern life it goes we go.
Nothing else has been found or made to replace it.
Why should we break the use of fossil fuel? God put it here for us. So stupid to think we can do better. It’s plentiful, cheap, works great.
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