Category Peak oil

Transit Oriented Development

Transit Oriented Development or “Smart Growth” is often cited as one of the potential solutions to dealing with peak oil by reducing suburban sprawl and creating more usage of mass transit and walkable communities. The idea generally is to promote…

TEOTWAWKI

Some are preparing for the end of the world as we know it, convinced that global warming and peak oil, means that life as we know it will be ending soon. Helen shows the growing collection of horse-drawn ploughs, wheat…

Revolt of the teapots

The small, locally own oil refineries in China called “teapots” revolted when the government froze gasoline prices. Since they couldn’t make money with the new pricing because the price of crude was rising, they simply switched to producing non-regulated products.…

Peak Oil goes mainstream

The Oil Drum reports on the Association for the Study of Peak Oil conference. As Dr. James Schlesinger, the first Secretary of Energy [under Carter], said in his Opening Address, the battle is over, Peak Oil is now accepted as…