I checked a book out of the library last week from 2007, the subject of which was how to get rich on the coming oil peak and subsequent collapse. The peak being predicted for 2012.
I wanted to see what sort of outlandish predictions it made.
Aside from being totally discredited by events, it actually had some very good material on how oil is formed, where it is found, how it is extracted and how it is refined.
I had a friend in early 2000’s who was 100% positive that we were at peak oil, the Iraq was was really about controlling the finite resource of oil... He subscribed to a guy, I think it was “From the Wilderness” who was some former insider who knew what was really happening... all a crock and I tried telling him that. He wouldn’t hear it.