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* ''VideoGame/Doom2016'': Earth has undergone this centuries earlier and it's gotten so bad as it was running out of uranium and plutonium, this changed when they discovered [[{{Phlebotinum}} Argent Energy]] on mars. However this comes with it's own hazards, namely if something goes wrong it could open a {{Hellgate}} and lead to an invasion by the LegionsOfHell. Even without that it's extraction and refinement is being monopolized by a downright monstrous MegaCorp.
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* ''VideoGame/Doom2016'': Earth has undergone this experienced Peak Oil centuries earlier earlier, and it's the energy crisis has gotten so bad as it that humanity was running out of uranium ''uranium and plutonium, this plutonium''. This changed when they Samuel Hayden discovered [[{{Phlebotinum}} Argent Energy]] on mars. However this comes with it's own hazards, namely Mars. However, Argent Energy has to be refined from its crude form, the literally-damning Hell Energy, which can easily drive entire colonies insane if something goes wrong it could mishandled. That happens and the madmen open a {{Hellgate}} and lead to an invasion by {{Hellgate}}, starting the LegionsOfHell. Even without apocalypse, but on the plus side, they accidentally discover [[TheDreaded the one human that it's extraction and refinement is being monopolized by a downright monstrous MegaCorp.demons are scared shitless of]]. Cue game.
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* ''{{VideoGame/Fallout}}'': Before the Great War, peak oil was the cause of the Resource Wars that devastated both Europe and the Middle East. Gas prices reached up to $1450.99 per gallon for regular (possibly also reflecting [[RidiculousFutureInflation inflation of the dollar]]). The United States (and China) were temporarily saved by going to a nuclear power-based society, but this meant the world was heading towards ''Peak Uranium''. The issue was all made moot, however, when [[WorldWarIII everyone started to sling nukes at each other]]. A solution actually was possible in the form of nuclear fusion (the fusion cells powering your laser rifles), but wasn't adopted quickly enough to avoid the apocalypse, due to paranoia, mutual distrust, and hostilities preventing the tech from being shared or adopted in time.
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* ''{{VideoGame/Fallout}}'': ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'': Before the Great War, peak oil was the cause of the Resource Wars that devastated both Europe and the Middle East. Gas prices reached up to $1450.99 per gallon for regular (possibly also reflecting [[RidiculousFutureInflation inflation of the dollar]]). The United States (and China) were temporarily saved by going to a nuclear power-based society, but this meant the world was heading towards ''Peak Uranium''. The issue was all made moot, however, when [[WorldWarIII everyone started to sling nukes at each other]]. A solution actually was possible in the form of nuclear fusion (the fusion cells powering your laser rifles), but wasn't adopted quickly enough to avoid the apocalypse, due to paranoia, mutual distrust, and hostilities preventing the tech from being shared or adopted in time.
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** The [[Film/MadMax first film]] is set JustBeforeTheEnd, written with a worst-case scenario of the 1970s oil crises in mind.
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* In ''Literature/DownToASunlessSea'', the United States used up all its oil while Great Brittain conserved theirs. The Arabs refuse to sell due to hatred of Israel and fears the dollar has become worthless. As a result, the United States is the equivalent of a bankrupt third-world nation, having to find a substitute for oil, while civil society disntegrates. Bootlegging of gasoline from Canada into the United States in punishable with death, and people trying to sneak onto the few international planes still operating, will be shot by armed soldiers that guard the planes. The fuel for the planes even has to be flown in, and is also guarded.
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* In ''Literature/DownToASunlessSea'', the United States used up all its oil while Great Brittain Britain conserved theirs. The Arabs refuse to sell due to hatred of Israel and fears the dollar has become worthless. As a result, the United States is the equivalent of has been reduced to a bankrupt third-world nation, having country, desperately trying to find a substitute for oil, oil while civil society disntegrates. disintegrates. Bootlegging of gasoline from Canada into the United States in is punishable with death, and people trying to sneak onto the few international planes still operating, will be operating are shot by armed soldiers that guard the planes. The fuel for the planes even has to be flown in, and is also guarded.
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* ''Film/Firebird2015AD'': The government has explained its DystopianEdict (the car has been outlawed except for government/police usage, any civilians caught driving a car will be arrested by [[PoliceBrutality any means necessary]]) as the result of "limited resources". However, various "burners" ([[LaResistance underground]] SpeedDemon-types who drive illegal automobiles) make mention that this is propaganda and in the end this is just one more example of the government stomping down on the innocent.
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* This is the overriding theme in the 1982 ''Mad Max'' imitator ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battletruck Battletruck]]'' aka ''Warlords of the 21st Century''. The intro makes mention of "the Oil Wars", and the titular truck is driven by the antagonists, a crew of mercenaries led by a warlord who resort to obtaining diesel fuel at any cost.
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* This is the overriding theme in the 1982 ''Mad Max'' imitator ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battletruck Battletruck]]'' ''Film/{{Battletruck}}'' aka ''Warlords of the 21st Century''. The intro makes mention of "the Oil Wars", and the titular truck is driven by the antagonists, a crew of mercenaries led by a warlord who resort to obtaining diesel fuel at any cost.
