"In 2001, Kenneth Deffeyes made a grim prediction: oil production would reach a peak within the next decade - and there was nothing anyone could do to stop it."

With world oil production about to peak and inexorably head toward steep decline, what fuels are available to meet rising global energy demands? That question,

"This book explains both why the decline of our most precious fuel is inevitable and how challenging it will be to cope with what comes next."—Richard E. Smal

In two earlier books, Hubbert's Peak (2001) and Beyond Oil (2005), the geologist Kenneth S. Deffeyes laid out his rationale for concluding that world oil produc

James Campbell has lived three lives. His first life occurred when things were "normal". Gas was abundant in the United States and the American Way of Life was