This is really tough for me, since I’ve put so much into this site over the past year. However, with other projects on my plate, including my other blog, www.youngdough.com, I’ve decided my efforts are better served elsewhere right now. Basically, I don’t feel I can put in enough effort to make my […]

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The first time geophysicist M King Hubbert predicted a peak in oil supply, he was ridiculed.  However, his prediction in 1956 that US oil production would peak around 1970 was ultimately spot on.  Our production topped in the early 70’s, and has since been on a steady decline, following the production bell curve he illustrated.  […]

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Planet Green’s web site has a series running entitled ‘Peak Everything’, in which they examine the long-term prospects for commodities that are essential to our livelihoods.  They have concluded that many of these important goods are going to face major supply challenges in the future, if they aren’t already.  Everything from rice to water to […]

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You know gas is expensive to Americans when the local news reports that scooter sales are up significantly, even in Des Moines. Scooters and moped riders who aren’t riding to school are still pretty few and far between in the States, but as we approach $4 a gallon unleaded, more and more people are […]

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