This real news reminded me of this fake news (my third post ever):
Peak Oil Reached in 1987 Toyota Corolla
American geophysicist Marion King Hubbert’s 1956 theory of Peak Oil, which posits that oil usage will rise to a peak and then steadily decline as resources are depleted, received a real-world validation this week in UMASS student Brad Finnerman’s 1987 Toyota Corolla. The vehicle, which has 207,000 miles on it, now burns nearly a quart of motor oil every day, up from a quart of oil every other day just a week ago, and a quart per week just a month ago. “It’s getting ridiculous the way it’s going up, up up,” Mr. Finnerman reported, prompting him to finally scrounge up the money to get his valve seals replaced. Once he does, the vehicle’s oil consumption can be expected to decline, thus mirroring the usage pattern forecast by the standard Hubbert Curve. The car, which Mr. Finnerman purchased last year for $500, also has confirmed Hubbert’s theories on resource depletion, as it has depleted all of Mr. Finerman’s resources, which, as Hubbert accurately predicted, are quite finite.
Happy Valley News Hour 
Hubbert of “Peak Oil” fame in his famous paper advocated nuclear power as a long term replacement for oil and coal. In fact, the actual title of the paper is “Nuclear Energy and the Fossil Fuels“. In this paper he predicted exponential growth in nuclear power production. In fact, his 1956 paper is as much an advocacy for nuclear power as it is an analysis of oil production projections.
This begs the question “If Hubbert was a prophet of doom regarding oil; why not a prophet of energy salvation regarding nuclear power?”
Put another way, Hubbert is lionized for a prediction that turned out to be correct so far regarding oil; while his prediction that was wrong concerning nuclear power is conveniently ignored.