peak-oil

The question is not about peak oil, but just about consumption of gasoline by American drivers. Over the last several decades both miles driven and consumption of fuel have risen pretty steadily. However, one look at the automakers' sales numbers for the first half of 2008 clearly demonstrates that ...

A culture's fears always finds its way into that culture's media. The best example is probably the allegories of McCarthyism in the film Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Peak Oil and climate change have seen their share of movie dramatizations, but Mad Max and The Day After Tomorrow were more ...

It's not uncommon for us to do a little bit of forward thinking and try to predict how gas prices will rise or fall in the near future. We've thought about how a successful Tata Nano could raise prices for everyone and wondered - with 72 percent of Americans - just what we'll do if $4 gallons of ...

The following video shows a small history of cars, cars that every time, with each model year, become bigger (except for a gap in the '70s) and finally, well, I don't really want to spoil it but it turns out that it's a metaphor on how big cars have become, and how oil production rises until we ...

While new discoveries of natural gas in the United States exceeded consumption in 2006, the same was not true for crude oil. Overall, proven reserves of crude oil in the U.S. dropped by four percent last year with the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska dropping ten and seven percent respectively. Previous ...

Recently, I have found myself driving in stop/go/crawl traffic at least 4 days a week. Of course, this now-frequent activity coincides with the current 40 cent hike in gas prices we are suffering thru right now. My 8-year old ride drinks heavily in this style of driving and I don't like spending ...