In a country largely turned into itself, a lone journalist tries to bring reality on oil prices above the daily roll of news bits on football results, jet-set gossip and political fait-divers.

On the 24th of May Jorge Nascimento Rodrigues published on the newspaper Expresso (the largest weekly publication in Portugal with 120 000 printings) what is one of the most direct addresses of Peak Oil ever featured in Portuguese media. Apparently written about the US this article is replete with messages for internal consumption.