Peak Oil

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Ask the pilot
With oil prices soaring, airlines are struggling as never before. What's in store for fliers?
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
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.
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
Blaming labor for peak oil problems
Costs are booming in the Wild West oil sands territory of Alberta. Fie on those workers spoiling the party for everyone else
The day the drilling stopped
Yet another peak oil nightmare: The end of dentistry as we know it is nigh.
If it smells like peak oil, it probably is
A bleak new report from the International Energy Agency offers plenty of fodder for those who believe the era of cheap oil is over, forever.
The missing link in Mexico's declining oil production
The words the Wall Street Journal dare not speak: "Peak oil."
The not-so-final word on peak oil
The Government Accountability Office takes a hard look at the global energy crisis. Could be, we have a problem.
Peak oil -- the German techno-thriller
Who needs science fiction for a fantastic plot when a global energy crisis looms?
Bill McKibben says we're stuffed
We've eaten, developed and drilled to near oblivion, says the environmental writer. It's time to realize that having more stuff is not the road to paradise. Oh, really?
"Switchgrass is cool, dude"
A House hearing on energy development shockingly features politicians asking experts substantive questions about ethanol and peak oil.
Mystery Cassandra
A prudent man offers a prescient warning on riotous living and peak oil.
Cheaper to buy than find
Peak oil sneaks into the Wall Street Journal.
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