one.point.zero - Colin O'Brien's weblog

“We don't have any idea how to stop this,”

“What we are seeing in this desperate horse-trading is the endgame of the oil age”

“Shell estimates that after 2015 supplies of easy-to-access oil and gas will no longer keep up with demand”

“Experts say the sharp growth, if it continues, means several of the world's most important suppliers may need to start importing oil within a decade to power all the new cars, houses and businesses they are buying and creating with their oil wealth.”

“It reminds me of the way no one would listen for years to scientists warning about global warming”

“Get this: the cars are not part of the solution (whether they run on fossil fuels, vodka, used frymax oil, or cow shit). They are at the heart of the problem. And trying to salvage the entire Happy Motoring system by shifting it from gasoline to other fuels will only make things much worse.”

“Last year, half of the world's 44 main oil-producing nations produced less oil than they did the year before. The chain of peaks is beginning to take on Himalayan proportions”

“However, all in all, most would appear to agree that peak oil output is not very far away for all of us.”

“Texas-based Exxon is trying to influence opinion-makers in Brussels because Europe - rather than the US - is the driving force for action on climate change.”

“Would you melt tupperware and put it on your toast?”

“By some estimates, 5 billion of the world's 6½ billion population would never have been able to live without the blessed effects of fossil fuels, and oil in particular”

“Every single calorie we eat is backed by at least a calorie of oil, more like ten”