Simmons published his book in June 2005, and according to Google Trends searches for the phrase “peak oil” peaked in August 2005, but spiked again 2006 and 2008 when oil prices jumped: (Click ...

Welcome the new four horsemen of the apocalypse: climate, war, peak oil and cancer. ... Or, as I interpreted it in my book, "Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle": ...

Some people use the phrases "peak oil" and "peak demand" interchangeably, but the two scenarios lead to entirely different outcomes. ... Books were written on the concept.

A decade ago, the media was filled with stories about peak oil, numerous books were published on the subject (such as Half Gone and $20 a Gallon!), and even the Simpsons mentioned it in an episode ...

He's the author of Peak Oil and the Second Great Depression, a 2010 book. He says the fracking boom has been so frenzied in this decade that drillers may have extracted the cheapest oil already.

During the three years it took to write the book, there has been a small, but steady proliferation of peak oil-related art, cartoons, stand-up comedy, theater, songs, and even some peak oil poetry ...

In his 2004 book Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil, the Caltech physicist David Goodstein wrote that the peak of world production is imminent and that "we can, all too easily, envision a dying ...

Editor’s Note: David Frum, a CNN contributor, is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast. He is the author of eight books, including a new novel, “Patriots,” and a post ...

Toward the end of “The Quest,” his sprawling book on energy, Daniel Yergin introduces an obscure 19th-century character named Sadi Carnot.

In 1956, M. King Hubbert, a US geoscientist working for fossil fuel giant Shell, projected — based on statistical modeling of ...

The Oil Drum, a Web site dedicated to informed discussions about peak oil and energy, announced on July 3 that it is closing down. (For a brief primer on peak oil, see my conversation with Brad ...

Get a peak oil book on Oprah’s book club and boom, your ranks quintuple. Simply being right, no matter how right you may perceive yourself to be, is not enough to produce change.