History Main / PostPeakOil

* ''TheWindupGirl'' by Paolo Bacigalupi; having exhausted all oil the world is back to using human and animal power, which is wound into springs to be released at need. The one resource everyone's after are calories to power the muscles that'll wind up the springs.

* ''{{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. The United States (and possibly China) were only saved by going to an all-nuclear society, while the rest of the world ended up collapsing. It was all made moot however, when everyone started to sling nukes at each other.

* ''LastChase'' (1981)
* The story of ''Americathon'' is set in a future United States where the gas shortage of the 1970's grew to a point where the automobile has been completely eliminated, except as a possession one can park permanently and live in.

* The world of ''VideoGame/{{Homefront}}'' has gas prices reaching nearly $20 a barrel due to a war between UsefulNotes/SaudiArabia and UsefulNotes/{{Iran}}.
* Implied in ''VideoGame/{{Infamous}}'', where gas prices in Empire City are just shy of $9 a barrel. However, that could possibly be price gouging after the disaster. Zeke also has a peak oil poster in his rooftop compound.

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* Technically, ways to produce liquid fuels from gas or coal do exist and resulting product is costly, but within reasonable limits. And there is really much coal on Earth. And even after coal exhaustion, there are ways to produce liquid fuels from biomass, that are in development even now (so known biodiesel .

* In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' oil has been supplanted by solar satellites, with the result that the Middle East is even worse off because no one is interested in them anymore.

** Technically, ways to produce liquid fuels from gas or coal do exist and resulting product is costly, but within reasonable limits. And there is really much coal on Earth.

* The [[MadeForTVMovie made-for-TV]] DocuDrama ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iCDeywiTJM Oil Storm]]''. Notable for depicting, as the catalyst for the oil shock, a hurricane hitting [[TheBigEasy New Orleans]] in September 2005... and did we mention that this was made [[HarsherInHindsight just months before Hurricane Katrina]]?

* It is somewhat debatable if this would actually hold water in real life. The {{UsefulNotes/Economics}} page explores this in the Resource Halt section. A brief explanation however, says that sellers of oil would start withholding stock to prepare for the scarcity, and oil's price, in event of supplies becoming less available would slowly rise over time forcing humanity to adapt by either finding a new resource/technology, or reverting to a simpler time. Now, a ''sudden'' temporary decrease in availability (such as embargoes, disruption of some sort in production, or transportation routes being cut off) can have nasty consequences, but would most likely only to regional areas, rather than the entire planet.

* ''TheWindupGirl'' by Paolo Bacigalupi.

* ''TheWindupGirl''.
* (Also, ''ShipBreaker'' by Bacigalupi is set in the same universe as ''TheWindupGirl'', so it's probably also an example. ''TheWindupGirl'' annoyed me enough that I didn't read ''ShipBreaker'', so someone else should provide details.)

* ''{{VideoGame/Fallout 3}}'': 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. The United States (and possibly China) were only saved by going to an all-nuclear society, while the rest of the world ended up collapsing. It was all made moot however, when everyone started to sling nukes at each other.

Anime and Manga
* In ''Gundam OO'' oil has been supplanted by solar satellites, with the result that the Middle East is even worse off because no one is interested in them anymore.

Film

* ''Last Chase'' (1981)

Literature

Video Games
* ''{{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. The United States (and possibly China) were only saved by going to an all-nuclear society, while the rest of the world ended up collapsing. It was all made moot however, when everyone started to sling nukes at each other.
* ''FrontlinesFuelOfWar'': The reason behind the war in the game. One of the loading text notes the irony of using fossil fuel-powered vehicles to fight a war fighting for the last remaining fossil fuels, mentioning that some citizens lamented that the last drops of oil would be burnt up by a tank.

* ''DeusExHumanRevolution'': An e-book mentions how peak oil lead to an economic crisis sometime before the game began.
* Inverted with perhaps unintentional irony in ''FinalFantasyVII: AdventChildren''. In the original game, Shinra Energy Corporation was literally sucking the [[TheLifestream life energy of the Planet]] dry in a [[{{anvilicious}} not so subtle]] ecological metaphor. In the movie, the world having barely avoided destruction and Shinra having been taken down, this energy source is obviously no longer used. So what is former eco-terrorist Barret doing nowadays? "Cloud, I found some oil!"

Western Animation
* {{Futurama}}: On the episode "Bendin' in the Wind", it is mentioned that oil preserves dried up in 2050, so cars now run on a more environmentally safe alternative: whale oil.