Inside Energy (https://insideenergy.org/tag/m-king-hubbert/)
Yesterday, we learned how a guy named M. King Hubbert introduced the concept of peak oil in 1956, a concept that peaked in the public psyche somewhere around August 2005. Today, we’re returning to the question, “Whatever happened to peak oil?” – which is the moment oil production reaches a global maximum. Did peak oil already happen? Maybe.
Remember 2005? In the middle of a Bush presidency, Terri Schiavo and her feeding tube captured national attention, Lance Armstrong was still winning Tour de France titles, and Arianna Huffington launched a new website. Perhaps it was the shock of Hurricane Katrina, or the post-Y2K lull, but we needed of a new apocalyptic obsession and we found one in peak oil. Public interest in peak oil – as judged by Google searches, at least – peaked in August 2005 and coincided with Hurricane Katrina. In 2005, we were experiencing peak “peak oil.”
