Local residents preparing transition for life after oil

NEWBURYPORT

“Peak oil is the point where supply peaks and starts to go down a descent or what they call a terminal decline,” said Robinson, a native of Ireland who relocated years ago and now serves on Newburyport’s 11-member Energy Advisory Committee.

“There are 96 countries that are known to have oil and gas resources and 64 of them have peaked already, including the United States, which peaked in the 1970s,” he said.

Whether we’ve already reached the peak of what we can excavate from the finite oil resources available on earth is the subject of some debate, according to Robinson. But all agree that peak oil will happen, and happen soon.

“There’s no argument that we will hit peak oil,” said Robinson.

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