“The world expects several decades of growing supplies of generally affordable oil,” writes oil-man turned solar entrepreneur Jeremy Leggett in Sublime magazine. “Every corporate and ministerial plan is geared to this assumption,” he notes, but the opposite is a more realistic likelihood: “Beyond the peak of global oil production the world faces shrinking supplies of increasingly expensive oil.” As we contemplate a life without cheap oil, it might be a good idea to look back at how we got into this mess in the first place. By understanding the rise of oil and its associated products, perhaps we can see a way back to life without it. Without attempting a complete history, I want to look at five key dependency-creating moments in the history of oil.
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PS – Times Online has a list of the top 50 green blogs. We’re not on it, needless to say, but Celsias are in at number five.
