The Myth of the Oil Crisis: Overcoming the Challenges of Depletion, Geopolitics, and Global Warming
The Myth of the Oil Crisis: Overcoming the Challenges of Depletion, Geopolitics, and Global Warming – Review
Much has been written about the pending point of oil and gas production, and the consequent decay of civilization as we fall back into a pre-industrialized society. Oil has been widely blamed on everything from accidentally triggering international climate change to being the vehicle of geopolitical wars. The result of which has started to calls for currently developing alternative energy sources such a nuclear, solar and wind, as well as effectively creating more useful vehicles. Now comes along Robin M. Mills who, in his book called “The Myth of the Oil Crisis”, to dispel notions that neither oil nor gas has eventually reached peak production. Mr. Mills argues in a concise and easy reasonable manner the different viewpoints concerning oil production, such as the Geologists, the Economists, the Militarists, the Environmentalists, and the Neo-Luddites. To help the reader understand the topic better, Mr. Mills gives a short history describing how we’ve finally reached our current financial situation along with a “who’s who” among oil producers. Mr. Mills becomes on to discuss the pros and cons of “near-oil” alternatives such as oil shale, coal, biofuels, gas liquids, and potential alternatives such as wind, solar, and nuclear. Of course no discussion of oil would be complete without currently discussing the dangerous would of geopolitics and climate change. “The Myth of the Oil Crisis” is an outstanding book for those desperately seeking a better kind of our dependence on oil, how we finally got that way, and what we can do about.