The end of oil on the edge of a perilous new world

Synopsis

A frank and balanced investigation of the economics and politics of oil—and a forward-looking assessment of a world without it.

Within thirty years, even by conservative estimates, we will have burned our way through most of the oil that is readily available to us. Already, the costly side effects of dependence on fossil fuel are taking their toll. Even as oil-related conflict threatens entire nations, individual consumers are suffering from higher prices at