I like to know a little bit about the future ( Read more... )

$10 Gasoline & Rising Inflation, The Trend of the Future
by Aaron Wissner
March 1, 2008While it sounds incredible, $10 per gallon gasoline is what we should expect only seven years from now. That is, if everything goes extremely well, between now and then ( Read more... )

How Peak Oil Changed My Life
Peak oil changed my life by altering my expectations and hopes for the future ( Read more... )

Peak oil, and in particular, the current plateau in oil production, has had a dramatic impact on the price of crude oil. Over the past ten years, the price has increased from a low of $10 per barrel, to a high of over $90 dollars per barrel. This is an increase of over 10% per year, although most of the increase has occurred during the past four ( Read more... )

Two years ago, I presented on peak oil to a group of leaders in Grand Rapids. By this time, I had recognized that the trend in oil prices had changed, and had started on a steady increase. By plotting a straight line, I suggested that oil prices would achieve $90 to $100 per barrel by the end of 2007. Here is the actual slide that I used in that ( Read more... )

For the past two years, I have been keeping an eye on the press to see if peak oil is hitting the mainstream. In that time, books, documentary films, magazine articles, websites, and community groups have all come on the scene. I've been keeping track of something else... how many newspaper and similar online media mention peak oil ( Read more... )

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Gas prices reached a lifetime record yesterday, when regular gasoline hit $3.49 per gallon. That is triple the price of only a few years ago. This price rise comes after other increases in recent weeks ( Read more... )