What happened to peak oil? Here an older 2012 video from Swedish peak oil luminary and ASPO chairman Kjell Aleklett . At the time, when we started this blog, we were entirely in the Richard Heinberg mode of thinking, summarized as: ‘ industrial society is going to be hit very soon by a truck, that few see coming and industrial society is doomed, because the world is running out of oil quickly. ‘ We no longer think that is the case. That doesn’t mean that peak oil is not going to happen, but it is at least a little postponed and there is fossil fuel life after peak oil. On the fossil fuel supply front, we are much more optimistic than we were three years ago. Meanwhile we think that it is very well possible to have a sustainable light-weight industrial society for 100% based on renewable energy, to […]