The always-thoughtful Gail Tverberg has a great post that simply shows in visual terms the history of world energy consumption - well worth a look. I've reproduced one of her graphs here, but please read the whole thing.
One graph not in her post (not suggesting it should be, but I like the contrast) is world discovery of oil over about the same period - anyone who implicitly believes we are discovering vast reserves should contrast the two:
(Source, Colin Campbell)
Gail goes on to write about how an economist might be misled by past trends to disregard "facts in the ground" - lack of understanding of geology or scientific reality is an ongoing problem for our society, sadly.
Sharon
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An interestiong first graph. It shws that the natural rate of increase of energy use & thus world GNP was stopped about 1970. I assume the "world" energy growth post 2000 is as entirely among the non US/EU countries as the GNP growth has been.
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Your graph is less meaningful since it specifically refers to "regular conventional oil" which, presumably deliberately, excludes tar and shale oil, shale gas which can be converted into oil & algae grown oil. One might as well "prove" that we ran out of oil in 1860 by producing a graph of production of "regular" whale oil.