The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New WorldHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005 - 399 páginas Petroleum is now so deeply entrenched in our economy, our politics, and our personal expectations that even modest efforts to phase it out are fought tooth and nail by the most powerful forces in the world: companies and governments that depend on oil revenues; the developing nations that see oil as the only means to industrial success; and a Western middle class that refuses to modify its energy-dependent lifestyle. But within thirty years, by even conservative estimates, we will have burned our way through most of the oil that is easily accessible. And well before then, the side effects of an oil-based society--economic volatility, geopolitical conflict, and the climate-changing impact of hydrocarbon pollution--will render fossil fuels an all but unacceptable solution. How will we break our addiction to oil? And what will we use in its place to maintain a global economy and political system that are entirely reliant on cheap, readily available energy? Brilliantly reported from around the globe, The End of Oil brings the world situation into fresh and dramatic focus for business and general readers alike. Roberts talks to both oil optimists and oil pessimists, delves deep into the economics and politics of oil, considers the promises and pitfalls of alternatives, and shows that, although the world energy system has begun its epoch-defining transition, disruption and violent dislocation are almost assured if we do not take a more proactive stance. With the topicality and readability of Fast Food Nation and the scope and trenchant analysis of Guns, Germs, and Steel, this is a vitally important book for the new century. |
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... demands more and more energy, with no end point in sight. And each year, it is more and more evident that the extraor- dinary machine we have built to supply that demand cannot sustain itself in its present form. Not a day goes by ...
... demand for oil . And here is the rub : the United States doesn't have enough of its own oil to meet that surging SUV - driven demand . After a century of full - bore drilling , oil companies are finding precious little new oil in the ...
... Demand for oil will jump from the current 80 million barrels a day to as much as 140 million barrels. Use of natural gas will climb by over 120 per- cent, coal use by nearly 60 percent. Demand will be especially acute in “emerging ...
... demand can do nothing but rise — and the energy industry not only intends to meet that demand but , for all its talk of novel technologies and approaches , will do so almost entirely with existing methods , fuels , and technologies — at ...
... demand and throwing the entire economy into an enduring depression that would make 1929 look like a dress rehearsal and could touch off a desperate and probably violent contest for whatever oil supplies remained. When such a production ...
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