‘’some sort of peak”

Editorial Comment, Polemic propaganda (Or, the 2% solution.)

“The world is running out of oil.” Few statements are as undeniably true as this. But it’s a bit like the lyrics from an old blues song, “the doctor says it’ll kill me, but he won’t say when.” The world started running out of oil shortly after it began being produced by well drilling. Exactly when, and whether, there might be some sort of peak in production, are other questions. One thing is certain: The world is not running out of hydrocarbons, if one stops thinking of “hydrocarbons” as just crude oil and natural gas.

Polemic propaganda. (Or, the 2% solution.) The world does not need more pundits, politicians, journalists and editors acting as spinmasters to convince people of things that are not entirely true: that’s the purview of marketers and salesmen. What we need is a more critical, skeptical and questioning public, one that is better informed in all types of energy, as well as energy rhetoric.

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