Here’s Hubert’s peak oil projection and the actual oil production in the US. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicting_the_timing_of_peak_oil#/media/File%3AHu

Here’s Hubert’s peak oil projection and the actual oil production in the US. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicting_the_timing_of_peak_oil#/media/File%3AHubbert_Upper-Bound_Peak_1956.png https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicting_the_timing_of_pea... Now there are multiple schools of thought, but one of them holds that when reality diverges so much from theory as in this plot, it’s time to question the theory.