"Peak Oil" and the "Death" of "Fossil Fuels"

Geologists keep finding more. Technologists keep expanding what we can use.

So very much is wrong -- or at least potentially wrong -- in that title.  I wrote the following this morning on Facebook in response to some goofball's confident assertion that "fossil fuels are dead", followed by a comment from a similarly-minded person about "Peak Oil", or the idea that we have now shot past the maximum amount of oil the world can produce. -- RDM

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by Rod D. Martin
September 30, 2012

There doesn't seem to be any meaningful limit.  Fracking just increased U.S. supply more than 100-fold in three years.  We don't know what we don't know about deep ocean drilling -- all we know is that science indicates there's vastly more down there than Obama will admit, and that Obama has run all our deep-water rigs out of the Gulf to Brazil, where they are in the service of his chief funder George Soros and the leftwing government down there.  And ironically enough, one of the most promising "alternate" energies -- coastal methane -- is really just natural gas.

Then there's th…