The End of Oil

Next week, Capital Metro in Austin, TX will begin service on their new light rail system. The trains will run north to south, from Leander, past UT and then right into downtown Austin. A few years back they introduced a new network of toll roads, all of which has done much to increase traffic...

In his latest blog post, James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency, challenges his critics who cast him as a “doom and gloom” soothsayer with no concrete solutions to his pessimistic scenarios of life in the post-peak-oil era. If any of these critics had ever taken the time to read his books and...

What’s up with Peak Oil? “Peak oil” is a topic that is slowly starting to make it’s way into the common consciousness of the American public. Briefly, peak oil is all about the idea that the world is quickly depleting it’s most easily accesible supplies of crude oil. The term “peak” comes from the...

There is a wonderful article posted at EnergyBulletin.net, entitled The Proposed Iranian Oil Bourse written by Krassimir Petrov. Among other things, this article puts into perspective the real reasons the Bush administration decided to go to war against Iraq. It turns out that in 2000 Saddam wanted to begin accepting euros for oil, instead...

Most Americans nowadays are far removed from the realities of food production. We here in the states enjoy cheap food for two primary reasons: 1) cheap labor, mostly in the form of Mexican immigrants, and 2) cheap oil, which pretty much affects every single aspect of food production, from the creation of fertilizers and...