Peak Ready:
A Guide to Peak Oil Preparedness

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What is Peak Oil?

Here are some links that I hope will help you understand the problem of Peak Oil:

• Wikipedia: Peak Oil

  An overview of peak oil, including alternate theories and counterpoints.

• A History of Oil

  A humorous, fascinating, and intelligent introduction to the concept of peak oil

• Life after the Oil Crash

  A very long, very detailed, and very well annotated explanation of the problem, and why there are no easy answers.

• Wolf at the Door

  This site has lots of graphs and explanations aimed at non-experts that will satisfy your need to see for yourself.

• Twilight in the Desert

  Matthew R. Simmons is an investment banker in the energy sector. In this book he has identified possible discrepancies in reported OPEC oil reserves, and provides a detailed analysis of the world's oil fields.

• The Party's Over

  Richard Heinberg is one of the leading authors on the subject, and goes into great detail about the history of oil, the situation as it stands now, and the limitations of alternative energy sources.

• Hubbert's Peak

  Written by Kenneth Deffeyes, a geologist in the petroleum industry, this book provides the background mathematics, geology, and readable explanations of how oil is found, how it is measured, as well as how much we have (or haven't) found, and why.

 

Peak Ready search

"What people need to hear loud and clear is that we're running out of energy in America."

George W. Bush
U.S. President
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"We may be at a point of peak oil production ... I can only tell you that I have studied this data seriously. I consider it an existential threat to your future."

Bill Clinton
Former U.S. President
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"By some estimates, there will be an average of two-percent annual growth in global oil demand over the years ahead, along with, conservatively, a three-percent natural decline in production from existing reserves."

Dick Cheney
U.S. Vice President
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"We almost certainly are at or near what they call peak oil"

Al Gore
Former U.S. Vice President
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"The 21st century is still young, as there are another 93 years to go. So it might sound overambitious to claim that 'The Event of the Century' is already behind us. But I'll gladly take the risk, for I seriously believe that the peaking of the global production of crude oil -- commonly know as 'Peak Oil' -- has occurred in 2006 and will be 'The Event' bound to dominate the history of the 21st century: one of those 'historical inflection points,' which abruptly change fundamentals in the course of world history. "

Ali Samsam Bakhtiari
Former National Iranian Oil Company expert
[source]

"Currently, there is no viable substitute for petroleum."

U.S. Army report: Energy Trends and Their Implications for U.S. Army Installations
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"The best Saudi oil is gone... Middle East production will go down by one third by 2012."

Matthew R. Simmons
Energy industry investment banker, energy advisor for the Bush administration
Chairman, Simmons & Company International
[source]

"...we're depleting our reserves four times faster than the rest of the world. America needs a national energy policy and a program on a scale of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II to prevent or mitigate the consequences of global peak oil. Doing nothing or doing too little too late will lead to a global economic and geopolitical tsunami with potentially devastating ramifications."

Roscoe G. Bartlett
U.S. Senator (Maryland)
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"Global oil [production] is 84 million barrels (a day). I don't believe you can get it any more than 84 million barrels. I don't care what [Saudi Crown Prince] Abdullah, [Russian Premier Vladimir] Putin or anybody else says about oil reserves or production."

T. Boone Pickens
Legendary oil baron and
Chairman, BP Captial Management
[source]

"One thing is clear: the age of easy oil is over"

David J. O'Reilly
Chairman and CEO, Chevron Corporation
[source]

"World oil production has now ceased to grow. Decline is the next step. The picnic's over."

Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Petroleum geologist formerly with Shell Oil, professor, and author

"The days of inexpensive, convenient, abundant energy sources are quickly drawing to a close"

U.S. Army report: Energy Trends and Their Implications for U.S. Army Installations
[source]

"Realistically, we're probably at peak now. If not, production will fall faster later."

Matthew R. Simmons
Energy industry investment banker, energy advisor for the Bush administration
Chairman, Simmons & Company International
[source]

"Oil prices may well remain high for a prolonged period of time... Further rises - if they materialise - may have more severe consequences than currently anticipated."

Statement from The Bank of International Settlements
(Often referred to as, "the central banker's central bank.")
[source]

"Alternatives like biofuels, ethanol or biomass can play a marginal supportive role but nowhere near on the scale required. When the oil runs out the economic and social dislocation will be unprecedented."

Michael Meacher
Former U.K. Environment Minister
[source]

"the top-10 oil groups spent about $8bn combined on exploration last year, but this only led to commercial discoveries with a net present value of slightly less than $4bn. The previous two years show similar, though less dramatic, shortfalls."

Wood Mackenzie
Energy Consultant
[source]

"Given the long lead times of at least 5-10 years from discovery to production, an oil crisis is coming and sooner than most people think. Unfortunately, we are behaving in ways that suggest we do not know there is a serious problem."

John Hess
CEO Hess Oil
[source]

"Peak oil is at hand with low availability growth for the next 5 to 10 years. Once worldwide petroleum production peaks, geopolitics and market economics will result in even more significant price increases and security risks."

U.S. Army report: Energy Trends and Their Implications for U.S. Army Installations
[source]

"My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel."

Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum
Former Prime Minister of United Arab Emirates and Emir of Dubai
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