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What is "Peak Oil"?
Peak oil has endured a rather prolonged disrespect among congress and the rest of the U.S. government since M. King Hubbert coined the phrase to describe the phenomena that is the lifespan of any given oil field wellhead.
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Preparing for Peak Oil
Global oil production will almost certainly ‘peak’ and go into sustained decline within the next few years. In addition to the challenge of climate change, we will soon have to contend with a rapidly growing deficit in fuels for transport. This will cause big spikes in energy prices – including natural gas and electricity – with potentially devastating economic and social impacts. This has severe implications for the provision of services by local government.
Read More >>Reuters: Peak oil to hinder world development
From Reuters India:
LONDON, July 21 (Reuters) - The looming peak in world oil production will set back international development and threatens to hinder efforts to make poverty history, a report by a group of UK lawmakers said.
While oil’s rally to a record high is causing economic pain in developed countries, its impact on international development [...]
How to stop the Great Crash of ‘08
According to an item published today by Asia Times, the chain-reaction of high oil prices will cause a catastrophic breakdown that will include the decline of world economic growth. Spengler believes several scenarios will play out as the U.S. economy crumbles. First, he predicts that markets will expect economic growth to decline as oil prices [...]
Read More >>Oil (Groundwork Guides)
In the early years of the 20th century, the availability of cheap oil fueled explosive industrial growth and the development of the world’s leading economies. From the days of “Drake’s Folly” in 1859 Pennsyvania until today, the world has used more than half of the cheap and easy to get to oil. Now, oil supplies [...]
Read More >>Hello and Welcome to PeakOilSupplies.com
Hello. Please allow me to introduce myself. I am the Administrator of PeakOilSupplies.com and on this site I post as Ovis Amercanis, which literally translated means “American Sheep”, not because I consider myself a member of the Family Ovis, but because my target audience are the so-called “Sheeple” of my country, America.
I discovered Peak Oil [...]
