Peak Oil

This episode of Those Conspiracy Guys is brought to you by Casper.com. Head over to their website using this link: www.casper.com/tcg to get $50 towards your first Casper mattress. On this episode we talk about the looming danger facing our planet and the depletion of fossil fuels to an unmanagable amount culd lead to either our destruction or our release from its greasy grasp and how its deliberate construction could have been the touch paper needed to kick start our modern civilisation: Peak Oil. The term Peak Oil created by Marion Hubert, a geologist who worked for Shell, stated simply that we would hit a global peak of oil discovery and then production and head into a steady decline after this. The turn of the century oil tycoons had no fear of this however and bilt a pan global empire based on this powerful black stuff. JD Rockerfeller and other industrial oligarchs tool oil and made it the superpower resource it is today, even influencing global economies on its value, but how did they do this? Through a series of nefarious business dealings which by todays standards seem impossible, but it is in fact because of these very deeds that these laws needed to be put in place. Rockerfeller and his Standard Oil company destroyed the electric car and the electric tram system installed in almost 50 cities across the states. They even got the government to enact Prohibition so alcohol fuelled cars couldnt compete with his oil prices.  We discuss different types of substitute for oil and why it was decided upon to be the global fuel of choice. How will the future look if we dont stop using oil with such abandon? What will we do if indeed it does run out? Is there a sustainable oil supply if we adopt electric transport? Is oil even a finite resource or can it be recreated by alchemical means? All this and more on this episode of Those Conspiracy Guys; Peak Oil Presented by Gordo, Paul and Johnny from The Disaster Artists podcast which you can listen to here: http://disasterartistspodcast.podbean.com/ Email us with comments or questions at thoseconspiracyguys@gmail.com Visit our website for all our sources and TCG news at www.thoseconspiracyguys.com If you're on Twitter follow us www.twitter.com/tconspiracyguys @tconspiracyguys is usually Gordo and @Paul_TCG is usually Paul Send us your links, questions and comments on Facebook and we reply to as many people as we can www.facebook.com/thoseconspiracyguys If you heard something you want to know more about, we have videos on all our sources and other stuff on our YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/thoseconspiracyguys Other sources available on Pinterest at www.pinterest.com/tconspiracyguys Connect with us on other social media like Snapchat, Periscope, Vine and you can see our Instagram profile here: www.instagram.com/thoseconspiracyguys Head over to our subreddit and see what the community is up to at www.reddit.com/r/thoseconspiracyguys Join us on Blab and take part in the new live show! Go here https://blab.im/tconspiracyguys and join in the conversation or listen on your podcast app If you are really loving the show you can buy merchandise at http://goo.gl/xHXYWg which is a link to our TeePublic store where you can get hundreds of conspiracy designs Also you can support us by visiting www.patreon.com/thoseconspiracyguys and your donations help keep the show alive and thriving