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Today we're going to talk about something where if you know about it, man, the world's your

oyster, but if you don't know about it, you are going to be blindsided.

The future is going to be unkind.

This is one of these things where if you know, you know, and if you don't know, you're

scroomed.

Hello, everyone, Dr. Chris Martinson, Peak Prosperity here back with you.

Today we're going to be talking about one of my old subjects, my favoriteest subjects,

peak oil, it's back. Hey, it's a concept that says, you know, oil goes up, oil goes down, it's a finite resource,

but we've been diluting ourselves in this country for a long time.

Now, we just saw the energy secretary Chris Wright comes out and says, hey, you know what?

Shale oil.

Shale could.

Hold on a second.

Let me get my little, let's see. How about a pen? Yeah, shale could hold on a second let me get my little um let's see how about a pen yeah shale oil could boost production even at $50 per barrel uh no it can't uh it just absolutely can't and here's

why so let's go into that this big thing just happened this week so you see the date down there and I'll get my highlighter so that we can all follow along together. March 13th, today being the 14th. So this just came out in Bloomberg yesterday at the time of this recording. And Sierra is this huge gathering of industry insiders. The headline is Spector of

Peak Oil production looms once again. Pro tip, it never actually went anywhere. It just took a little

bit of a hiatus and we're going to talk about that hiatus. Now, remember, it was so just December

2024 when we were getting headlines in Forbes like this

U.S. energy dominance continues.

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