Chapter 21 of the Crash Course is now publicly available and ready for watching below. For the best viewing experience, watch the above video in hi-definition (HD) and in expanded screen mode Transcript: Okay, by now you’ve heard the prior chapters on the Peak Cheap Oil concept and by now many of you are wondering how any of that could be still be true given all the positive recent stories about shale oil and shale gas, many of which proclaimed “peak oil is dead”. The mainstream press has faithfully repeated every press and PR statement made by the shale producers and if you simply followed the headlines you might even believe this about the US: It is soon going to be energy independent, Its oil production will surpass even Saudi Arabia putting it in the number one spot,and The US will even be exporting oil again like the […]