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Will We Ever Have a MAD MAX-Style Gas Shortage?

Remember so-called “peak oil”? Whatever happened to that?

In my latest Because Science, I’m taking a look at the future of fossil fuels. Are we ever going to have a fuel shortage that causes us to suddenly turn everything into also a flamethrower? It turns out that since the peak oil panics, it doesn’t look like we’ll run out of gasoline before we transition off of them.

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