Just to add my bit to this. Having just come upon TOD and the whole topic of peak oil in the last month has obviously made me even more curious to go out and find more information. I picked up The Last Oil Shock here in Australia a couple of weeks ago and I could not put it down.

Very good review btw. The book provides some great historical perspectives including an in-depth explanation on the Hubbert's Peak story which I could only find in bits and pieces on the Net.

God forbid we have to go through the Robert Rapier-WestTexas feud again but, he does have a point in that it has been some time since we actually discussed the technicals of peak oil(i.e. Hubbert's Peak) and oil depletion(i.e. Ghawar), I guess because we are nearly all in agreement that it is now upon us and are now predominantly focused on dealing with it's consequences. This is an important paradigm shift that rest of the world has not a glimmer, while we stand beyond, peering back through the veil, at a world oblivious.