But we have shale oil and tar sands and coal to liquids!
I agree with you... the conventional sweet crude is about to peak and start declining, the stuff is increasingly sour, increasingly in the harder to reach places, increasingly in unstable regimes and countries that don't like westerners very much, and increasingly expensive... yet India and China want their turn at the industrialised party.
Yet the main conversation impacting energy use is global warming —*is it "clean" energy? The question of whether there's
enough liquid fuel energy does not seem to have hit the mainstream. Yet.