It's Official: We're Just a Few Years from Peak Oil

By George Monbiot, Monbiot.com
Posted on December 21, 2008, Printed on December 23, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/113047/

Can you think of a major threat for which the British government does not prepare? It employs an army of civil servants, spooks and consultants to assess the chances of terrorist attacks, financial collapse, floods, epidemics, even asteroid strikes, and to work out what it should do if they happen. But there is one hazard about which it appears intensely relaxed. It has never conducted its own assessment of the state of global oil supplies and the possibility that one day they might peak and then go into decline.