This article by Nobel Prize winner Richard Smalley takes an optimistic, high-tech look at the transformation necessary to wean the world away from fossil fuel dependency if modern human development is to continue.  Implicit in his analysis is that oil scarcity is inevitable.  As Peak Oil Paradigm Shift notes, there is indeed an urgent need to develop a sustainable global energy model.

This research coming out of Uppsala University and supervised by Peak Oil guru Professor Kjell Aleklett concludes that tar sands , while promising, will not be able to completely make up for the decline in conventional crude oil.

The New York Times, America's newspaper of record, has come out with a well-researched and thoughtful article on the prospects of imminent oil scarcity. The author interviewed key personnel in the US and Saudi Arabia in arriving at sobering conclusions about the stability of oil prices and the oil industry as a whole in the current climate of high demand and and diminishing discoveries.

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