Peak Oil Fantasy

Waiting for the planet to run out of oil is not an effective response to climate change.

from September/October 2015 September 28, 2015 FIRST THE DERRICKS , then the bars and brothels. After that, the wasteland. In 1859, the first successful oil well in the United States was drilled in Titusville, Pennsylvania. Eight miles away and six years later, a lot more oil was found where I was standing in the almost uninhabited land around a stream called Pithole Creek. Within a few months of the discovery hundreds of derricks were up and pumping away. In every direction the landscape had been stripped of trees to build oil silos, oil barrels, oil roads—and a new oil city, population fifte

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