Peak Oil - How Will You Ride the Slide?
We've already burned through almost half the world's supply of oil. How will we ride out the slide down the other side of Hubbert's Curve? For more information, go to: http://www.energychallenge.tv/
We are entering the Peak Oil era. The growth of oil production is slowing, driving up oil and gasoline gas prices, firing inflation, driving unemployment, straining our global economy, and threatening to collapse our entire system. We are reaching Peak Oil and we are unprepared. Teacher Aaron Wissner, in a compact 10 minutes video summary, details Peak Oil, the evidence, the impacts, and the solutions. See the full one-hour video at LocalFuture.org. Also, at YouTube, see the conclusion, of that presentation, part 5 of 5, which highlights the impacts, underlying problem, and solutions to Peak Oil.
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September 2006
Is the age of cheap oil about to come to an end? According to many experts, we are about to reach the point of "peak oil" -- the level at which supply can no longer keep up with demand. This, say the doomsayers, could send economies spinning into turmoil and up-end our comfortable, urban lifestyles. But others claim predictions like this are simply scaremongering. They believe supply will match demand for decades to come. So who's telling the truth? 'Peak Oil' investigates.
Have you noticed, more cars, more trucks, more road building? Peak Oil deals with the recent world-wide speculation that global oil production has reached its peak and may now be in serious decline. 'Peak Oil' is a short atmospheric documentary film by Larry Larstead and shot in the Northern-Rivers region of NSW, Australia, and tackles the big question: What happens when the oil starts running out?
Peak oil is coming, but how can you be sure that it is actually going to happen? It only takes one fact to prove it: petroleum (oil) is a non-renewable limited resource.
Peak oil is the point in time when global oil production reaches its all time maximum, after which it never again attains that same level, and continues decrease forever.
Teacher Aaron Wissner explains how we know that peak oil will happen based on the simple fact that oil is a non-renewable, limited resource.
For the past three years, oil production seems to have gotten "stuck" at 84.5 million barrels per day. This is probably the cause of rising oil prices, gas prices, food prices, the decline in the value of homes, the dollar, and the domestic auto industry.
We may very well be now living in the era of peak oil.
From cavemen to Peak Oil, a brief history of our current state of energy affairs and the reality of Peak Oil -- the fact that we as we extract more and more oil, there is less and less of it, yet our demand does not seem to decline. Hm, problems? Richard Heinberg explains Peak Oil in detail with a slideshow! (more)
