Michael T. Klare, Tomdispatch.com. September 24, 2009. The great age of renewable energy is in our distant future. Before then, energy prices will rise, environmental perils will multiply and conflict will grow. Buckle your seatbelts.
Michael T. Klare, Tomdispatch.com. January 14, 2009. Oil costs a third of what it did in July, and prices keep dropping. That may seem like a godsend now, but we'll pay through the nose later.
Dilip Hiro, Tomdispatch.com. July 17, 2008. The current oil shock, the fourth in the past 30-plus years and the deadliest so far, shows every sign of continuing for a long, long stretch.
Barry Lando, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. January 17, 2008. While Bush was suggesting Arabs might lower their oil prices, they were using their profits to pick up a slice of America's most powerful bank.
Michael T. Klare, The Nation. November 8, 2007. Welcome to the Age of Insuffiency: As oil prices hit new highs and supplies sink, our way of life will drastically change.
James Howard Kunstler, Salgamundi. December 14, 2006. Robert Bruegmann argues in his new book that urban sprawl will continue because people like it, but reviewer James Howard Kunstler counters that the petro-dependent suburban era is just about finished.
