I just don't know who knows what, that's the problem. The idea of peak oil was born of a legitimate concern about the dropping pressure in oil wells, which was thought to indicate they were emptying. But then the pressure went back up, indicating they refilled, but we never heard about that part on the news. Anything that pushes the idea of energy being scarce and destructive to generate is embraced and pushed, anything that refutes that is just ignored or actively suppressed.