Peak Oil

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After the disastrous Iraq war, the nation is now sadly set to serve as the supplier of the globe's energy needs
  • Peak oil? Don't worry -- Obama's on the job

    Energy efficiency gains could slake the world's oil thirst. Thanks, in no small part, to the current administration
  • Goodbye to cheap oil

    The world's shrinking supply of oil may have disastrous effects on the economy and our security.
  • Ask the pilot

    With oil prices soaring, airlines are struggling as never before. What's in store for fliers?
  • The decline and fall of the American empire of debt

    Kevin Phillips' newest excoriation of the state of the union, "Bad Money," is the right book for the right time.
  • Stoners and energy secretaries unite

    The chastening economic consequences of sharp oil price spikes worry everyone, from Steven Chu to cartoon dopers
  • The happy prospect of peak gasoline demand

    Maybe we aren't doomed after all. Exxon's CEO suggests Americans are permanently losing their thirst for gas
  • New oil discovery in the Gulf: Big, yes, but not cheap

    BP announces a "giant" oil field, deeper below the water than Mt. Everest is high. But don't write off peak oil yet
  • Falling gas prices: Where's the outrage?

    It's October in an election year and the price of gasoline is dropping like a rock. Where have all the conspiracy theorists gone?
  • Jimmy Carter -- the peak oil president

    His 1977 speech on the energy crisis is all too timely during a week of campaign obsession over tire gauges and offshore drilling.
  • Why $140-a-barrel oil is no surprise

    It took awhile, but the market finally realized there's only so much of that black gold to go around.
  • The Wall Street Peak Oil Journal

    As crude prices set another record, the Journal publishes its gloomiest assessment yet of the oil market
  • The peak oil culture wars

    Do conservatives oppose conservation because they don't like taking the bus? Or because they're terrified that those dirty hippies were right all along?
  • Peak oil explains lack of UFOs

    Why is there no evidence of alien space-faring civilizations? Maybe it's because the cost of jet-fuel got too high
  • Hillary Clinton throws economists off the bus

    But it's not just the dismal scientists she is disavowing with her charges of oil market manipulation.
  • The education of an oil reporter

    A year ago, the New York Times' Jad Mouawad pooh-poohed the theory of peak oil. But $120 a barrel for crude forces everyone to rethink their positions
  • The oil seesaw

    Demand in the U.S. falls for the third straight quarter. But China's thirstier than ever, and it isn't alone.
  • How not to prepare for peak oil

    Russia, Nigeria, Mexico: Please open your arms to foreign oil companies so we can pump out your black gold even faster
  • North Dakota -- the next Saudi Arabia

    Anti-peak oilers are rejoicing at the news of huge oil reserves yearning to be drilled. But it won't be cheap, and it won't be easy. OPEC can relax.
  • Peak oil? Consider it solved

    It won't be easy but we can fix our oil and climate problems at the same time.
  • The upside to peak fertilizer

    Synthetic production of nitrogen consumes oodles of energy. Organic never looked so good
  • Has world oil production already peaked?

    Tadeusz Patzek, biofuel critic supreme, says the numbers so far this year support a peak oil hypothesis
  • How global warming will save us from peak oil

    A melting Arctic will make it easier to extract fossil fuels from the formerly frozen north.
  • Don't cry for Saudi Arabia

    The Kingdom's petroleum minister claims that efforts to rein in the demand for oil are unfair to his country. But maybe the world has bigger problems?
  • The oil price paradox

    As the price of crude surges again to new highs, even the CEO of Exxon says he can't figure out what's going on
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