Survey time!

Hi, folks. I've become interested in the answer to a couple of questions I consider relevant to the peak oil issue:

1) When (what year or, if you can remember that precisely, what month and year) did you first learn about peak oil being an important issue for popular focus?

2) Through what media (word of mouth, book, movie, news article, etc.) was it presented to you at that time? If there was a combination, please be specific about this, i.e. if someone TOLD you about a movie that you then went to go see, then the answer would be "movie". On the other hand, if you are a geologist or other kind of scientist and you somehow have first-hand knowledge of peak oil, you could talk about that too, in layman's terms please.

My intention is to do some research into the background of interest in peak oil as a socio-political phenomenon. What I produce at the conclusion of this research will be about that rather than about peak oil itself. I appreciate all your help.