http://energybulletin.net/9980.html .......Essential Reading


For those of you not yet convinced that we are at the end of cheap oil... or who think peak oil is not due for a few decades... or who aren't worried because technology will appear to sustain our current lifestyles ... take your pick from the following books and websites...

Books

Blood & Oil:
How America's thirst for petrol is killing us
By Michael Klare
Penguin, 2004, 7.99

Crossing the Rubicon:
The decline of the American empire at the end of the age of oil
By Michael Ruppert
New Society, 2005, US $19.95

High Noon for Natural Gas:
The new energy crisis
By Julian Darley
Chelsea Green, 2004, US $18

Hubbert's Peak
The impending world oil shortage
By Kenneth S Deffeyes
Princeton University Press, 2001, 10.95
Island Planet

A survival guide for the end of the fossil fuel world(paperback)
By Matthew Henley
Publish America, 2005, US $19.95

It's the Crude, Dude
War, big oil and the fight for the planet
By Linda Mcquaig
Anchor Canada, 2005, Canadian $22

Oil Crisis
By Colin J Campbell
Multi Science Publishing, 2005, 23.50

Powerdown
Options and actions for a post-carbon world
By Richard Heinberg
Clairview Books, 2004, 10.95

The End of Oil - The decline of the petroleum economy and the rise of a new energy order
By Paul Roberts
Bloomsbury, 2004, 17.99 (Hbk)

The Growth Illusion
How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many, and endangered the planet
By Richard Douthwaite
Green Books, 1999, 12.95

The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
By Thorn Hartmann
Hodder & Mobius, 2001, 8.99

The Long Emergency
Surviving the converging catastrophes of the twenty-first century
By James Howard Kunstler
Atlantic Books, 2005, 12.99

The Party's Over:
Oil, war, and the fate of industrial societies
By Richard Heinberg
Clairview Books, 2003, 11.95

Twilight in the Desert
The coming Saudi oil shock and the world economy
By Matt Simmons
Wiley, 2005, 15.99..