"an alarming report that the national supply of oil will be entirely used by within just 25 or 30 years more at the rate that the country is currently burning through the precious and decidedly finite fuel source" The Cheapest Oil Ever Sold https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/cheapest-oil-ever-sold https://oilprice.com/Energy/Oil-Prices/The-Cheapest-Oil-Ever-Sold.html An elite government-appointed group called the National Conservation Commission is charged with taking a comprehensive inventory of natural resources in the United States and discover where resources are being inefficiently handled and even squandered. They come back to the United States Congress with an alarming report that the national supply of oil will be entirely used by within just 25 or 30 years more at the rate that the country is currently burning through the precious and decidedly finite fuel source. The year is 1909. [That said, oil alarmists are still going strong today. ... lots of interesting history tidbits in article.]