The other night I was in an insomiac mode and watching CSPAN. Roscoe Bartlett (R) Maryland was hosting a panel on the future security of the United States as it relates to the energy situation. His position was that we have reached/or are about to reach the peak oil production in the World. I went to his site www.bartlett.house.gov and rummaged around and found some documentation from April 2005 that followed the arch of the discussion Monday night.

Makes a good read...though is not feel good stuff...one begins to wonder what will happen when production levels start diminishing as demand goes up. The conflicts...the changes in transportation...how much production now depends on oil for energy or as a raw material to be converted into a product. We are at a dangerous point in human history and hopefully we are not going to just hope for a technological miracle to save us.