peak oil
The moment when extraction of crude oil reaches its highest level, after which rates permanently decline because of geophysical limits to the resource’s availability. The idea that oil extraction can be depicted as a bell-shaped curve with a single highpoint was first spelled out by Shell Oil geologist M. King Hubbert in ... ...
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