Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Jeff Rubin: Oil and the End of Civilization

Jeff Rubin: Oil and the End of Civilization

Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization




From last year: The Oil Drum | Jeff Rubin Talks about Oil and the Economy

Energy Bulletin:
Distance costs money
Lindsay Curren, Transition Voice
Economist Jeff Rubin, author of Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization says that high oil prices caused every US recession since the 1970s. Now we complain that credit scams are a bubble that will cause deflation. But is oil still lurking in there?


Peak coal is moving closer too
If what we are witnessing is the actual peaking of China's domestic coal production - which is half the world's production -- then this event could turn out to be as serious as the peaking of oil.

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