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  • From: "Lisa K.V. Perry" <lisakvperry AT gmail.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] peak oil was:Morning musing
  • Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:56:20 -0400

On 9/20/07, Don Bowen KI6DIU <don.bowen AT earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> At 9/20/2007, you wrote:
> >Those who
> >were saying the production peak is 40 years away are by and large saying
> now
> >it's more like 10. Many others say we passed peak two years ago.
>
> I looked into this and think peak was last year or at best within the next
> five years. Daily oil production has not increased in the last year while
> demand has. We will not see the affects of tightening supplies for a
> while
> but we will see steadily increasing prices. That is what is hiding Peak
> Oil from us, gasoline is available to anyone who has the money and will be
> for many more years to come, it is just those with the money will be
> fewer. This will make it harder to come up with real alternatives until
> it
> may be too late.


This site is full of good information (and has a link near the bottom to the
documentary I mentioned earlier), but fair warning, it's not for the faint
of heart.

http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/Index.html




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