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Net Energy Cliff Will Lead to Collapse of Civilization by 2030

Source: 22 June 2009. David Murphy. The Net Hubbert Curve: What Does It Mean? theoildrum. This is the scariest chart I’ve ever seen.  And also the most important.  I put it on my refrigerator to remind myself what the future … Continue reading

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Robert Hirsch: Peak Transportation Fuel describes problem better than peak oil

Excerpts below are from Identifying the “Oil” We’re Most Worried About, 3 Dec 2012 ASPO Peak Oil Review.   Hirsch says the tragedies that the Peak Oil community is concerned about will begin when transportation fuel declines, and that this concept … Continue reading

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Summary of Hirsch & Bezdek 2005 DOE Peak Oil study

A summary of the Department of Energy report: PEAKING OF WORLD OIL PRODUCTION: IMPACTS, MITIGATION, & RISK MANAGEMENT, February 2005 Robert L. Hirsch, SAIC, Project Leader Roger Bezdek, MISI, Robert Wendling, MISI The peaking of world oil production presents the … Continue reading

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Robert Hirsch: Oil Shock coming soon, depression won’t delay it

Robert Hirsch was the author of the first US government report on peak oil 10 Jul 2012. Peak Oil Guru Robert Hirsch Gives A Dire Outlook For The Future  slide 25: The world has never faced a problem like the … Continue reading

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Gail Tverberg (Gail the Actuary)

Gail the Actuary at ourfiniteworld.com and theoildrum.com writes outstanding columns on peak oil and finance.   There are so many graphs that I’m not going to summarize all of this article, you need to read it!  Most people assume that … Continue reading

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Nicole Foss

Nicole Foss, at theautomaticearth.com, writes about the intersection of Peak Oil and the economic system. Harvard recently wrote a study that got a lot of coverage and convinced some people, like George Monbiot, that Peak Oil isn’t an issue to … Continue reading

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William Rees

Professor at the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) He is the originator of ‘ecological footprint analysis.’ He is a Fellow of the Post-Carbon Institute and a Founding Fellow of the One Earth Initiative. 23 … Continue reading

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Die-off: several predictions of when and how bad will it be

Friedemann: it’s said that if fish were scientists the last thing they’d discover was water — it’s so ubiquitous and taken-for-granted that it’s not visible.  In the same way, oil permeates every tiny detail of our life support, from transportation, … Continue reading

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Bakken Shale and U.S. Oil Production

Roger Blanchard. 26 Dec 2011. ASPO-USA peak oil newsletter On Sept. 25, 2011 National Public Radio’s All Things Considered program had a segment consisting of what I considered highly questionable information concerning oil production in the Bakken Shale region of … Continue reading

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When will the decline of oil begin, at what rate?

If the German Peak Oil report is correct, once investors believe oil production is declining, that will be the end of the stock market, since growth can no longer occur and debts be repaid.  The financial system is precarious enough … Continue reading

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