over the barrel of peak oil

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

First things first

People are using more energy, including fossil fuels, than ever we have before, and soon we will run short. The implications are, or should be, frightening in the extreme.

In this web log, I will point out media pieces and web sites related to the subject of Peak Oil. A good starting point on the subject is this 'Wikipedia' article . Here's a re-listing of the recommended books from that article, but with Amazon links and prices or do the LibraryThing.

Also recommended is the June 2004 National Geographic cover article: The End of Cheap Oil . It concludes:
at least some of the ingenuity and toil that goes into getting oil needs to go toward limiting our thirst for it. "People should be doing something now to reduce oil dependence and not waiting for Mother Nature to slap them in the face"
The NG article was in some ways prescient in that, before Katrina, it described the hardships in finding and extracting oil offshore from New Orleans. But then, 'slap' is putting it mildly.

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