up, up and away

I began this blog in 2005 with a reference to a National Geographic article on peak oil. Here's a new article on peak oil from the current issue of that magazine.

CNN just re-visited a piece it premiered 2 years ago and was shown several times since, We Were Warned. It is now subtitled, Out of Gas, while earlier that was, Tomorrow's Oil Crisis. It appears that tomorrow has become today.

a closer look at biofuels

The National Geographic October 2007 article, Green Dreams, takes an in-depth look at biofuels, especially ethanol.

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.