Romm Recycles Jimmy Carter Graph From 1977

Unless profound changes are made to lower oil consumption, we now believe that early in the 1980s the world will be demanding more oil that it can produce … Each new inventory of world oil reserves has been more disturbing than the last. World oil production can probably keep going up for another six or eight years. But some time in the 1980s it can’t go up much more. Demand will overtake production. We have no choice about that.

Jimmy Carter – 1977

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10 Responses to Romm Recycles Jimmy Carter Graph From 1977

  1. suyts says:

    lol, we’ve been at the peak of peak oil for over 30 years now…….OMG!!!!! panic!!!!!! Run wildly flapping our arms and waving our hands. lol..

  2. Latitude says:

    drill, baby, drill

    The only limitation is they keep banning drilling

  3. MikeTheDenier says:

    Carter has no shame and would lie to his own mother.

  4. D. King says:

    Here, put this in your peak oil pipe and smoke it!
    http://tinyurl.com/4nycghv

    • Latitude says:

      excellent

      The biggest field is in south Texas, and they are worried about polluting the drinking water…..

      T-bone nosepicker bought up all the water rights in north Texas, then sold all his windmills…

      …..think he’s on to something

  5. Alan Simpson says:

    The market price will decide how much oil there is. How many times does this BS need to be addressed? Oh, sorry, we are discussing a left wing commentator again, let’s throw reality out of the window and start again shall we?

  6. Andy Weiss says:

    Carter was the original alarmist!

  7. Amino Acids in Meteorites says:

    Baghdad Romm—he never does anything but propagandize.

  8. PandR says:

    Peak Oil was first identified as a problem in the late 1920’s. We’ve been running out ever since!

  9. PhilJourdan says:

    34 years later, the graph has not changed – just the X axis.

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