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Books on Energy Depletion

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Useful books on the subject of oil & gas depletion include:


Campbell C.J., 1997, The Coming Oil Crisis; ISBN 0-906522-11-0 (Reprinting)

Campbell C.J., 2003, The Essence of Oil & Gas Depletion; ISBN 0-906522-19-6

Cooke R.R., 2004, Oil, Jihad and Destiny; ISBN 1-930847-62-9

Deffeyes K.S., 2001, Hubbert’s Peak; ISBN 0-691-09086-6

Goodstein D.,2004, Out of Gas; ISBN 0-393-05857-3

Hamilton-Bergin S., 2003, The No 19 Bus - The Coming Global Energy Crisis; ISBN 0-9545318-1-7

Heinberg R., 2003, The Party’s Over; ISBN 0-86571-482-7­

Illum K., 2004, Oil-based Technology and Economy; ISBN 87-90221-86-9

Klare M.T., 2002, Resource Wars; ISBN 0-8050-5576-2

McCluney W.R., 2004, Humanity’s Environmental Future; ISBN 0-9744461-0-6

Perrodon A., 1998, J.H.Laherrère & C.J.Campbell, 1998, The World’s Non-Conventional Oil and Gas; ISBN 1 86186-062-5

Roberts P., 2004, The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World

Youngquist W.L., 1997, Geodestinies; ISBN 0-89420-299-5


"It is oil that makes possible where we live, how we live, how we commute to work, how we travel-even where we conduct our courtships. It is the lifeblood of suburban communities.

Oil (and natural gas) are the essential components in the fertilizer on which world agriculture depends; oil makes possible to transport food to the totally no-self-sufficient megacities of the world.

Oil also provides the plastics and chemicals that are the bricks and mortar of contemporary civilization, a civilization that would collapse if the world’s oil wells suddenly went dry." (Yergin)