Complex idea - we're running out of easy to reach oil, the amount infrastructure, labor, and energy required to extract a barrel of oil out of the ground will eventually make it counterproductive to drill new wells.
Strawmen used to cut the idea down:
Oh, you're talking about climate change
The price will just go up
Oh, that's just politics, you don't know the truth
Technology will solve the problem
etc., etc.
We here at HN are specialists at picking apart examples. It's a feature when it comes to weeding out con artists and crackpots. It's a bug when it comes to actually discovering new things that haven't been communicated perfectly.
We need to keep this in mind, and try not to be too blind to new facts or ideas.
We need to keep this in mind, and try not to be too blind to new facts or ideas.