The End of Oil

I just finished "The End of Oil" by Paul Roberts. Here is an interview with the author.

The book was not only extremely well written it also defined Oil not as black gold, but simply as the current energy form our economy runs on. This energy form has costs ranging from price per barrel, to CO2 build-up, and even war. When I first picked up the book I was afraid it would just be a "boy cried wolf" read, but it was not at all. It is not an attempt to scare the reader it just is presenting facts and strategies to solve the coming problems.

While I don't want to sit and write a book report. You can find one here. I would like to point one very interesting excerpt:



Even a modest improvement in fuel-economy standards - say, thirty-two miles per gallon for cars and twenty-four miles per gallon for light trucks - would by 2010 be saving 2.7 million barrels per day - or nearly twice as much as could be pumped every day from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. p. 296