There was a story on NPR's "Marketplace" last night about peak oil.  It included an interview with Jeremy Leggett, author of "The Empty Tank: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Coming Global Energy Crisis."

You can listen to it here:

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2006/01/04/PM200601046.html

his book is here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400065275/qid=1136425769/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-1958057-4691151?n =507846&s=books&v=glance

which I haven't read yet.  Hadn't even heard of the guy until I heard him on the radio, actually.

I wrote a little about this book here