ILX, what do you know about peak oil?

There are charts showing how oil field discovery has not kept pace with demand for a while now, but production has continued to increase thanks to a large surplus in discovered fields in the past. That surplus of discovered but not drilled oil has pretty much run out, though.

blimps, yo!

also:

"Hosted by Barrie Zwicker. Featuring James Howard Kunstler, Peter Calthorpe, Michael Klare, Richard Heinberg, Matthew Simmons, Michael C. Ruppert, Julian Darley, Colin Campbell, Kenneth Deffeyes, Ali Samsam Bakhtiari and Steve Andrews."

Ha, I've already books by half of those people.

Until a few weeks ago it was my goal in life to help redesign american cities to be more energy efficient and make better use of public transportation.

But now I'm just ready to jump ship and run to someplace that has the right idea already.

here are some good links concerning peak oil. just the antidote for today's horrible mood.

http://www.hubbertpeak.com/

http://www.peakoil.net/

http://www.rmfdevelopment.com/SaveOilNow.htm

http://www.gasandoil.com/peakoil/

http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/features/fex43579.htm

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1111/is_1845_308/ai_112796599 (Harper's 'the oil we eat', article about the degree to which US food production is extravagantly oil dependent)

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0406/feature5/index.html

PS, coincide #2353493:
Bush plans manned expeditions to Mars for the near future.
Hm!

so says Ali Al Naimi, the Saudi Oil Minister, quoted on the Peak Oil site. In this respect I am sure he speaks the truth. But he also said that he was convinced that the very last barrel of oil produced anywhere in the world would be from Saudi Arabia and I'm very dubious about that.

Yes, I remember watching a documentary on a little island that has run cars and everything on vegetable oil for years, as they are sort of war with some one or another, out in the Pacific.

Oh maybe, it was mining for metals! We're not gonna run out of metal, we can just build cars that don't go, we'll all have Flintstones cars.

Besides, we have plenty of metals here on earth, they're just wasted and sitting in people's front yards (broken down old cars, anyone?).