October 27 2011: How I prepared my family for peak oil

"The energy guys should really revise their models to include the financial crisis, but so far that's not happening. It would force them away from their field of expertise, and that's never easy to accept and always easy to ignore. Energy consumption is set to fall a lot, certainly in the western world, simply because it will become much less affordable. Peak oil, then, will become an afterthought receding into the hinterland; not an urgent concern."