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Peak Oil: A list of news articles, books, and web sites (363)
The society you live in is highly dependent on cheap energy. As we reach the oil production peak within the next few years, the price of petroleum and our economies will fluctuate. Your lifestyle will be affected. How will you adapt? (See my related lists on Sustainability and What To Do .) Have feedback or something you'd like to add? Feel free to contact me .
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Articles (152)
Respected publications carrying articles on peak oil. Insightful.
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2012
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2011
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2010 (8)
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2009 (35)
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Colin Campbell's Response to the Guardian IEA Reporting
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Colin Campbell. ASPO, Ireland.
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Oil: future world shortages are being drastically underplayed, say experts »
Guardian, UK. November, 2009.
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Peak Demand or Peak Consumption? A Look at OECD Oil Demand »
The Oil Drum. November, 2009.
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Warning over global oil 'decline' »
BBC. October, 2009.
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Peak oil could hit soon, report says »
Guardian UK. October, 2009.
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The Future of Nuclear Energy: Facts and Fiction Part III: How (un)reliable are the Red Book Uranium Resource Data? »
The Oil Drum. September, 2009.
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Industry Task Force on Peak Oil and Energy Security »
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What's Holding Us Back »
Forbes. August, 2009.
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Warning: Oil supplies are running out fast »
Independent. August, 2009.
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How Much Natural Gas Do We Have to Replace Gasoline? »
The Oil Drum. July, 2009.
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Greenpeace study finds oil companies may be doomed »
Guardian. July, 2009.
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Oil is Peaking But Not Because of Speculation »
The Cutting Edge. July, 2009.
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The Peak Oil Debate »
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. June, 2009.
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Thirty contestants, only one winner in the Iraqi oil licence gameshow »
The Independent. July, 2009.
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Eager to Tap Iraq's Vast Oil Reserves, Industry Execs Suggested Invasion »
Truthout. July, 2009.
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Is the United States drifting toward "war socialism"? »
Kurt Cobb. June, 2009.
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Oil: What price can America afford? »
Exploration & Production Magazine. June. 2009.
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Transitioning to a post-peak oil world »
CNET News. June, 2009.
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Cheer Up, It's Going to Get Worse »
Bohemian Magazine. June, 2009.
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Maintaining Our Prosperity »
By Lionel Orford. Energy Bulletin, June, 2009.
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Michael Klare, Goodbye to Cheap Oil »
TomDispatch. June, 2009.
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Apocalypse Now »
The Globe and Mail. June, 2009.
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The Fifth Problem: Peak Capital »
Ugo Bardi @TOD. June, 2009.
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From a Failed Growth Economy to a Steady-State Economy »
Herman E. Daly. June, 2009.
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Energy: The Achilles Heel of the Resource Pyramid »
Kurt Cobb. May, 2009.
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"Peak Oil" or "Limits to Growth" »
Postingat TOD by Gail the Actuary. May, 2009.
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Commentary: Let's get real about alternative energy »
CNN commentary. May, 2009.
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Somebody's Gotta Do It »
Richard Heinberg. May, 2009 "...we have recently gained access to concentrated but depleting non-renewable energy sources that have enabled us to grow our population and appetites for commodities of various sorts to utterly unsustainable levels; and in the process of burning carbon-based fuels we have set in motion a process of climate change that is rapidly spiraling out of control. This is going to be a tough set of problems to solve, because it involves changing people’s lifestyles and expectations, sharing nature’s dwindling bounty of non-renewable resources rather than fighting over the crumbs, and finding ways to reduce population proactively without interfering too much with human rights."
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Peak Oil: Global Oil Production’s Peaked, Analyst Says »
WSJ Blogs. May, 2009.
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Minerals scarcity: A call for managed austerity and the elements of hope »
The Oil Drum. March-May, 2009.
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"Peak Oil" or "Limits to Growth" »
The Oil Drum. May, 2009.
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You've bought your last car »
By Andre Angelantoni. April, 2009.
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Finding Fissile Fuel: A new wave of nuclear power plant construction has boosted the price of uranium reactor fuel »
Scientific American. January, 2009.
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International Energy Agency 'blocking global switch to renewables' »
The Guardian. January, 2009.
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The Costly Compromises of Oil From Sand »
New York Times. January, 2009.
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2008 (25)
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Cheap oil, but at what cost? »
Chicago Tribune. November, 2008.
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Prophesy of economic collapse 'coming true' »
New Scientist. November, 2008.
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From Subprime to Meltdown: Is Peak Oil Responsible? »
Seeking Alpha. October, 2008.
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My April 2007 Forecast Regarding The Connection Between Peak Oil and the Collapse of the Monetary System »
Gail the Actuary @ The Oil Drum. October, 2008.
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The End of Growth »
Richard Heinberg. October, 2008.
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Receding Horizons for Alternative Energy Supplies »
By Kurt Cobb. September, 2008.
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Our American way of life is unsustainable - evidence »
By Chris Clugston. August, 2008.
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Water expert slams biofuels at global conference »
Forbes. August, 2008.
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The Peak Oil Crisis: The Blackouts Spread »
Falls Church News-Press. July, 2008.
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Secret report: biofuel caused food crisis »
Guardian News. July, 2008.
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The Case For and Against Nuclear Power »
Wall Street Journal. June, 2008.
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Former President Bush energy adviser says oil is running out »
TimesOnline. June, 2008.
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End of cheap oil: Growing prices, demand raise uncomfortable questions »
Geensboro News-Record. June, 2008.
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End of the Petroleum Age? »
Michaek Klare. Foreign Policy in Focus. June, 2008.
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It was oil all along »
Truthout. June, 2008. By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship.
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The organisation of denial: Conservative think tanks and environmental scepticism »
Environmental Politics. June, 2008.
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Cows aren't part of a climate-healthy diet, study says »
World Changing. June, 2008.
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Wake Up, America. We're Driving Toward Disaster. »
James Howard Kunstler. May, 2008.
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Fatih Birol interview: 'Leave oil before it leaves us' »
International Politik. May, 2008
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The Waking Up Syndrome »
HopeDance Magazine. April, 2008
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Why the demise of civilisation may be inevitable »
New Scientist. April, 2008.
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Ethanol backlash hits new level as food prices jump »
MarketWatch. April, 2008.
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Peak oil at Bush press conference »
Aaron Wissner. April, 2008.
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Energy and food problems need global solutions, says Sachs »
Seattle Times. April, 2008.
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My Other Car is a Bright Green City »
Alex Steffen. January, 2008.
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2007 (6)
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2006 (11)
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The War on Lebanon and the Battle for Oil »
Global Research. July, 2006.
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Cheney Starts New Cold War Over Oil »
By Mark Ames. June, 2006.
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The Tempest »
Washington Post. June, 2006.
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Feeling the Heat »
Endeavors: Research and Creative Activity, UNC-CH. May, 2006.
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The Alt Fuels Distraction »
TomPaine.com. May, 2006.
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Public health and the precautionary principle: the case of peak oil »
Energy Bulletin. May, 2006.
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Population, Resources, and Human Idealism »
Richard Heinberg. May, 2006.
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Stop the Fossil Foolishness »
Truthout. April, 2006.
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The oil is going, the oil is going! »
Salon. March, 2006.
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Fuelling Fortress America: A report on the Athabasca tar sands and US demands for Canada's energy »
Tony Clarke, Bruce Campbell, and Gordon Laxer. March, 2006.
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Apocalypse, Not »
Toby Hemenway. February, 2006.
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2005 (10)
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A fit of (oil) peak »
Boston Globe. September, 2005.
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The Breaking Point »
The New York Times. August, 2005.
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Past the Peak: How the small town of Willits plans to beat the coming energy crisis »
Metroactive. August, 2005.
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The big chill:
Manufacturers are warning the DTI that Britain may run out of gas this winter. Sylvia Pfeifer examines why they are so concerned »
The Telegraph UK. July, 2005.
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Kissinger warns of energy conflict »
Financial Times. June, 2005.
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Peak oil is already here: Now that everyone agrees oil production is in decline, what’s next? »
The Republic (Vancouver). April-May, 2005.
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The end of oil is closer than you think »
Guardian UK. April, 2005.
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Analyst fears global oil crisis in three years »
Guardian Uk. April, 2005.
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ChevronTexaco's CEO banking on peak oil situation »
SF Chronicle. April, 2005.
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Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation and Risk Management »
Robert Hirsch, Roger Bezdek, and Robert Wendling. February, 2005. (This is the "Hirsch Report".)
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2004 (24)
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Limits to Growth, The 30‑Year Update - A Synopsis »
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The Gathering Storm »
By Charles T. Maxwell. Barron's. November, 2004.
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US military on the scent of oil »
Asia Times. November, 2004.
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Peak Oil, Stolen Elections, Energy Wars »
Newtopia Magazine. November, 2004.
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Prognosticating oil supplies »
Washington Times. November, 2004.
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Oil Wars: Transforming the American Military into a global oil-protection service »
Michael T. Klare. October, 2004.
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Pump Dreams: Is energy independence an impossible goal? »
New Yorker. October, 2004.
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Oil: The real threat to national security »
Salon. October, 2004. (Subscription required.)
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Oil drought could be our saviour »
Guardian UK. July, 2004.
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Oil Gone »
Metroactive. June, 2004.
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Break out the bicycles »
Guardian. June, 2004.
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Is the world's oil running out fast? »
BBC News. June, 2004.
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The End of Oil »
Mother Jones. May/June, 2004.
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Still at its mercy »
The Economist. May, 2004.
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Don't gripe about gas prices »
Globe and Mail. May, 2004.
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The coming energy crunch: A $2 gallon of gas is just the beginning »
NY Press. May, 2004.
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The looming oil crisis will dwarf 1973 »
CBS Marketwatch. May, 2004.
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Why the coming oil crisis will last »
CBS Marketwatch. May, 2004.
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The Oil Crunch »
New York Times. May, 2004.
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When the last oil well runs dry »
BBC News. April, 2004.
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What’s in a Gallon of Gas? »
Discover. April, 2004.
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Running out of oil -- and time »
LA Times. March, 2004.
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The Oil We Eat »
Harper's Magazine. February, 2004.
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Has global oil production peaked? »
Christian Science Monitor. January, 2004.
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2003 and prior (7)
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Films and Videos (7)
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Peak Oil Books (53)
The steady stream of books on peak oil has increased from a trickle to a flow.
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Tar Sands »
By Andrew Nikiforuk. 2009.
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Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change »
By Pat Murphy. 2008.
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Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects »
By Dmitry Orlov. 2008.
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The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience »
By Rob Hopkins. 2008.
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The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age »
John Michael Greer. 2008.
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Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy »
By Michael T. Klare. 2008.
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The Final Energy Crisis, Second Edition »
Edited by Sheila Newman, 2008.
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Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines »
By Richard Heinberg. 2007.
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The Last Oil Shock »
By David Strahan. 2007.
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Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (And Doesn't Seem to Care) »
By William Marsden. 2007.
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The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook: Recipes for Changing Times »
By Albert Bates. 2006.
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Peak Oil Prep: Prepare for Peak Oil, Climate Change and Economic Collapse »
By Mick Winter. 2006.
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The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism And Economic Collapse »
By Richard Heinberg. 2006.
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Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives »
Edwin Black. 2006
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Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food And the Coming Crisis in Agriculture »
By Dale Allen Pfeiffer. 2006.
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A Thousand Barrels a Second: The Coming Oil Break Point and the Challenges Facing an Energy Dependent World »
By Peter Tertzakian. 2006.
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Peak Oil Survival : Preparation for Life After Gridcrash »
Aric McBay. 2006.
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Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy »
By Matthew R. Simmons. 2005.
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The Empty Tank : Oil, Gas, Hot Air, and the Coming Global Financial Catastrophe »
By Jeremy Leggett. 2005.
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Over a Barrel: A Simple Guide to the Oil Shortage »
By Tom Mast. 2005.
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century »
By James Howard Kunstler. 2005.
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Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World »
By Richard Heinberg. 2004.
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The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World »
Paul Roberts. 2005.
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Blood and Oil : The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency »
By Michael T. Klare. 2004.
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Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak »
By Kenneth S. Deffeyes. 2004.
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Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil »
By Michael C. Ruppert. 2004.
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Oil, Jihad, and Destiny »
By Ronald R. Cook. 2004.
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The Coming Oil Crisis »
Colin Campbell, 2004. A respected oil industry geologist.
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Crude : The Story of Oil »
By Sonia Shah. 2004.
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A Century Of War : Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order »
By F. William Engdahl. 2004.
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Oil: Anatomy of an Industry »
By Matthew Yeomans. 2004.
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Out of Gas: The end of the age of oil »
David Goodstein, 2004. Scientific slant, from a thermodynamicist.
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The Oil Factor: Protect yourself and profit from the coming energy crisis »
Stephen Leeb, Donna Leeb, 2004. Financial and economic perspective, from a pair of investors.
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High Noon for Natural Gas »
Julian Darley, 2004.
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Jimmy Carter and the Energy Crisis of the 1970s: The "Crisis of Confidence" Speech of July 15, 1979 »
Daniel Horowitz, 2004.
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The Party's Over: Oil, war, and the fate of industrial societies »
By Richard Heinberg. 2003. Humanistic perspective, from the view of an ecologist.
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Hubbert's Peak: The impending world oil shortage »
Kenneth S. Deffeyes, 2003. From an oil industry geologist.
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The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late »
By Thom Hartmann. Revised April, 2004.
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Related topics (14)
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Bottleneck »
William R. Catton, 2009.
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Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight Without Oil »
By Richard Gilbert and Anthony Pearl. 2008.
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The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America »
By Peter Dale Scott. 2007.
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Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures »
By Lester R. Brown. 2005.
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Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update »
Donella H. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis L. Meadows, 2004.
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed »
Jared Diamond. 2004.
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Environment, Scarcity, and Violence »
Thomas F. Homer-Dixon, 2001.
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The 2030 Spike »
Colin Mason, 2003.
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Health of Nations: Why Inequality is Harmful to Your Health »
Kawachi and Kennedy, 2002.
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Who says they didn't know? »
Washington Post. May 9, 2001. (That's right -- four months prior to 9/11!)
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Home From Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century »
By James Howard Kunstler. 1998.
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Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America'S Man-Made Landscape »
By James Howard Kunstler. 1994.
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Overshoot »
William R. Catton, 1982.
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Sustainability »
A collection of resources on sustainable living, organized around Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
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Anti-Peak Oil Books (Readers beware--please use critical thinking!) (2)
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Introductory materials (5)
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Web postings (34)
Good perspectives from around the web. Easy to read and informative.
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Can we use fear as a motivator for change »
Rob Hopkins. March, 2006.
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Why peak oil is probably about now »
Stuart Staniford. March, 2006.
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The End of Civilization »
By Dave Eriqat. March, 2006.
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The Material Basis of Accumulation »
By Stan Goff. From the Wilderness. December, 2004.
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The Well Oiled Media »
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Hubbert's Peak Resources: A brief introduction to world oil depletion »
By Sergey Borovik.
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Peak Oil and Depopulating Asia »
By Bill Henderson. October, 2004.
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The Hydrogen Economy – Energy and Economic Black Hole »
By Alice Friedemann. September, 2004.
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Iraq and the Problem of Peak Oil »
Center for Research on Globalization. By F. William Engdahl.
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The Oil Crash and You »
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Are we running out of oil? »
By L.B. Magoon
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The Peak is Nigh »
Richard Heinberg. August, 2004.
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The Endangered US Dollar »
Richard Heinberg. August, 2004.
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The Petroleum Plateau »
Richard Heinberg, 2003.
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Peak Oil: Is it the end of the world as we know it? »
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International Petroleum Monthly: Oil Production »
US official production figures.
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ASPO News (Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas) »
Unofficial archive of the ASPO Newsletter, by permission of Dr. Colin Campbell.
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Eating Fossil Fuels »
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Fish Wars: How cheap oil drives industrial longline fishing »
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Overpopulation: Earth Day 2004 »
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The End of the Oil Age »
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Will the End of Oil Mean the End of America »
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Beyond Greed and Scarcity »
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The Saudi Arabian Oil Miracle »
By Matthew Simmons.
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Oil prices likely to remain at current levels through ’04 »
From Petroluem News. Even the petroleum industry acknowledges the problem.
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World Without Oil »
Indymedia Belgium.
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Petroleum and Violent Conflicts: Strategies for Industrialized Countries »
Rudolph Rechsteiner.
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Revisiting The Limits to Growth: Could The Club of Rome Have Been
Correct, After All? »
Matt Simmons.
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Sustainable Agriculture »
Local information on sustainability. READ!
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The Oil Crunch and The End of Growth »
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Ethanol is not a solution (1)
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According to David Pimentel from Cornell University who has studied
this to death: »
CONCLUSIONS The forgoing analysis, for which all major energy inputs required in ethanol production were assessed, confirms that ethanol production produces a 29% negative energy balance. Ethanol is not a net additional energy source, is an uneconomical fuel, and its overall production system causes serious environmental degradation. This analysis agrees with the findings of the U.S. Department of Energy (ERAB, 1980, 1981), Sparks Commodities (1990), Giampietro, Ulgiati, and Pimentel (1997), Pimentel (2001), and Hodge (2002). At present, the total cost to produce a gallon of ethanol from corn is $2.24. Using the by-products produced in ethanol production may reduce the cost to about $1.79. But then, adding on an estimated 36c= to cover some of the pollution brings the cost up to $2.15 per gallon of gasoline equivalent. Certainly, in terms of economics Mike Stasse Australia
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A Call for Action »
Dale Allen Pfeiffer.
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Energy in a Natural Economy »
By Tom Wayburn.
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Interviews and lectures (30)
Listen to what these experts and authors have to say.
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Dr. Albert Bartlett (1)
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Colin Campbell (1)
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Matt Simmons (3)
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Richard Heinberg (8)
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Richard Heinberg speaks to the Willits Economic Localization Project »
February, 2005.
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Interview with Sue Supriano »
KPFA. October, 2004.
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Richard Heinberg discussing 'The Party's Over - Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies' »
Global Public Media, 2003.
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Plan War and the Hubbert Oil Curve »
ZNet, April 2004.
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The Party's Over »
Minnesotans For Sustainability, 2003.
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The End of the Age of Oil - Part 4 »
Radio Internet Story Exchange, 2002.
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Interview with Richard Heinberg »
Vancouver Indymedia, 2003.
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The Party Is Over »
EV World, 2003.
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Michael Klare (2)
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James Howard Kunstler (1)
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Mike Ruppert (1)
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Ross Gelbspan (1)
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David Goodstein (1)
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Robertson Program Seminar Series: Energy in Transition »
UNC Chapel Hill.
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Living on Earth: Then End of Cheap Oil »
Living on Earth radio broadcast from June 11, 2004.
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Quotes (7)
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"Relative to demand, oil is no longer in plentiful supply. The time when we could count on cheap oil and even cheaper natural gas is clearly ending."
David O'Reilly, chairman and CEO of ChevronTexaco Corp.
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"We would like to see the [crude oil] price get back to around $25 a barrel, somewhere around there."
Allan Hubbard, director of the White House National Economic Council. May, 2005.
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"The reality is, this thing is extremely complicated. My honest view is that anybody who tells you that they have a clear picture probably doesn't understand the problem."
Robert Hirsch, an energy analyst at Santa Monica-based Science Applications International Corp. May, 2005.
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"We need an energy policy that encourages consumption."
George W. Bush
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"The only real strategy on oil is to use less of it."
Roger Altman, deputy Treasury secretary in 1st Clinton administration
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Depopulation should be the highest priority of US foreign policy towards the third world.
Dr. Henry Kissenger. (He cited reasons of national security, and because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries… wherever a lessening of population can increase the prospects for such stability, population policy becomes relevant to resources, supplies and to the economic interests of the US.)
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"The greatest thing to come out of this for the world economy, if you could put it that way, would be US$20 a barrel for oil. That's bigger than any tax cut in any country."
Rupert Murdoch. February, 2003.
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Web sites on peak oil (34)
Web sites committed to the subject of peak oil.
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Web sites responding to peak oil (8)
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Presentation materials (8)
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Active groups (6)
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Other listings of "peak oil" information (4)
Listings like this one, pointing to useful information around the web.