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6667 (or 6697 SSL)What is Peak Oil?
Peak oil is the point at which global oil production reaches its maximum rate, after which production enters terminal decline. It's not about "running out" of oil — it's about the end of cheap, easy oil.
The concept was first articulated by geologist M. King Hubbert in 1956, who correctly predicted US oil production would peak around 1970. The math is simple: oil is a finite resource, extraction follows a bell curve, and we've found most of the easy stuff.
What makes peak oil dangerous isn't the geology — it's the economics. Modern civilization runs on cheap energy. When extraction costs rise faster than the economy can absorb them, you get inflation, recession, and eventually systemic breakdown. That's what we track here.