THe Future is Now - the End of Cheap Oil

"Although the apparent crisis is about terrorism, the real one is about energy scarcity....an incisive account of the energy issue also explains the real functioning of the world's economy – and who controls it, and how this shapes so much of our daily lives."

"Oil pervades our civilization; it is all around you."

"Oil is critical for our food supply."

"...currently committed to endless growth...One way or another, the have-nots must become customers [consumers]."

"Peak Oil will likely turn human civilization inside out long before global warming does..."

"The catastrophe made inevitable by these limits is beginning now."

"Whoever controls the oil in the Eurasian continent, which includes the Middle East, the Caspian Basin, and Central Asia, will determine who lives and who dies, who eats and who starves."

Ruppert discusses the lack of alternatives, recognizing as the others do that new technology may help but cannot fully replace the facility with which oil has energized our society. His main example is electricity, beginning with the basic idea that "electricity is not a primary energy source, but merely a carrier of energy produced by some other source," and ending with the idea that "Electric vehicles are an illusory solution."

America's production of oil peaked in 1970. Global production has or will peak, by most best estimates, sometime between 2005 and 2010, but we won't know for sure until it has already passed. The per capita production of oil peaked in 1979.

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