The meme has been around a lot longer than a decade. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil Calling the meme "peak oil" is

The meme has been around a lot longer than a decade. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil Calling the meme "peak oil" is (I think) relatively more recent. As early as the Kennedy administration the U.S. government implemented "conservation" efforts which put a lot of wild-catters out of business, thus hastening a self-fulfilling prophecy.