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by InefficientRed 1456 days ago
We're very nearly at the 2018 peak anyways [1].

The stock is so big relative to the flow that I can't imagine how anyone has confidence in claims like this. Even if we will completely run out of extractable oil in N years, consumption could continue to grow for the next M << N years.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/global_oil.php