Sounds like you have been reading srsroccoreport.com.
Steve
He and I used to argue back in 2006 and 2007 when I was a silver bug. He is not that smart. If you are following this charlatan then you are really in deep shit.
Of course oil industry observers have been saying that the easy oil has already been found... For the past 100 years...
There is no need to guess.
I calculated the entire world's oil supply would be the flow of a medium sized river (not even the Mississippi).
There is no peak
energy. It is another religious, Malthusian delusion.
Technology (knowledge) always rises to fulfill demand. We can even produce oil from coal if need be.
Besides we are transitioning to an electric, mass transportation future a la Elon Musk's ideas.
It leads you into other questions such as, was the carbon tax entirely just an Enron scam? A plot to try and force people into world govt that has nothing to do with energy? Or some type of way to attempt to force people to subsidize the energy sector to maintain the status quo of life? Or all of the above? The fact that Trump has this Exxon guy as his new right hand man makes me believe this actually is becoming a big problem.
Occam's Razor informs you that corruption is the reason. You don't need to invent some elaborate delusion.