Peak oil

It's real, it's happening, it's changing all the rules.

The Oil Drum's mission is to facilitate civil, evidence-based discussions about energy and its impact on our future. We near the point where new oil production cannot keep up with increased energy demand and the depletion of older oil fields, resulting in a decline of total world oil production. Because we are increasingly dependent upon petroleum, declining production has the potential to disrupt our lives through much higher prices and fuel shortages. The extent of the impact of this supply shortfall will depend on its timing, the magnitude of production decline rates, the feasibility of petroleum alternatives, and our ability to curtail energy consumption.

EnergyBulletin.net is a clearinghouse for information regarding the peak in global energy supply.

As an Outpost of the Post Carbon Institute’s Relocalization Network since our founding in 2005, the Titanic Lifeboat Academy is a center for research and education in sustainable living practices, deep ecology ethics, renewable energy systems and low-impact appropriate technologies.

Wikipedia entry on peak oil.

Energy Bulletin's peak oil primer.

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