Oil burden is the volume of petroleum consumed multiplied by the average price and divided by nominal gross domestic product. This gives the proportion of the world economy devoted to buying oil. It read more

What will our political candidates do when they can no longer try to win campaigns by saying they’ll build more roads and tunnels and car parks?

Expressways have made China a unified continental country in a way that it never was before. Products are being shipped all over the country allowing for first-time domestic economic development – read more

[url=http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2011/3206293.htm]Peak oil? Now it’s peak cars[/url]

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Australian and world peak car use per capita was read more

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[url=http://transitionvoice.com/2010/12/top-10-peak-oil-books-of-2010/]Top 10 Peak Oil books of 2010[/url]

1. Player One: What Is to Become of Us by Douglas Coupland.

2. The Witch of Hebron by read more

Talking with Wally Wight of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas last night at the Transition The Grove’s Energy Subgroup monthly meeting. He had brought along a lovely big coloured read more

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The International Energy Agency’s new forecast for medium-term oil and natural gas market was issued yesterday. In contrast to the IEA’s read more

Why are the riots happening across the top of Africa?

Hunger population well beyond carrying capacity the oil supply that enabled them to purchase food from overseas now past peak so there’s no read more