The Question
Why aren't our leaders talking about Peak Oil?

Answer
It is very hard to say anything with your head in the sand.

The peaking of world oil production presents the U.S. and the world with an unprecedented risk management problem. As peaking is approached, liquid fuel prices and price volatility will increase dramatically, and, without timely mitigation, the economic, social, and political costs will be unprecedented. Viable mitigation options exist on both the supply and demand sides, but to have substantial impact, they must be initiated more than a decade in advance of peaking.

PEAKING OF WORLD OIL PRODUCTION: IMPACTS, MITIGATION, & RISK MANAGEMENT
download the 2005 Department of Energy report (91 page PDF file)

Here are about 6,760,000 hits on "peak oil" at Google. 

World population? Heading toward 7 billion. Check out World Clock for updates on population, oil pumped, CO2 emissions, cars, bikes, computers and more, more, more...

Watch the Peak Oil presentation in Congress by Roscoe Bartlett [R-MD] at the C-SPAN Video Library. 
You can thank Rep. Bartlett for his efforts at his Contact page.

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  "Rep. Roscoe Bartlett for President - He dares to talk Peak Oil - www.bartlett.house.gov
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Dan Sweeney in The U.S. Governmental Accountability Office Weighs in on Peak Oil -
"The Navy brief is, if not alarmist, certainly admonitory, while the GAO tome is so lacking in urgency as to raise questions as to why it was prepared in the first place. Surely on a matter of such significance one would expect the authors to take a stand and to suggest appropriate measures."   
TRANSFORMING THE WAY DOD LOOKS AT ENERGY 138 page Department of Defense PDF document
U.S. needs a peak oil strategy GAO report

Documentaries 
The End of Suburbia
   
A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
 

Peak Oil Discussion Groups
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... if by 2050, the per capita energy consumption of China and India were to approach that of South Korea, and if the Chinese and Indian populations increase at currently projected rates, those two super giant countries by themselves would consume more oil than the entire world used last year.

Joseph Romm, Peak oil? Consider it solved


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