Cambodia has struck oil, but it may not necessarily be good news. Hamish MacDonald, reporting for Al Jazeera from Cambodia, asks how well-suited the country is to absorbing its new windfall.

AHMED

Chapter 17a - Peak Oil: Energy is the lifeblood of any economy and a steady supply of energy is necessary to maintain the status quo, while an ever-increasing supply is needed to grow an economy. In this chapter, Dr. Chris Martenson explains that Peak Oil is not a theory, rather it is a description of how oil production increases over time, reaches a peak, then declines. Evidence points to a global production peak in the near future, which is troubling since the US imports two-thirds of its …

ERASMO

[May 8th, 2008, US House of Representatives] Congressman Roscoe Bartlett and Peak Oil, back together for the x[th] time. The House is empty, and while other congressmen are away kissing babies, Roscoe rocks the floor. This time he finally addresses the money problem in the form of MONEY LAUNDERING; it’s a start. Thanks to Ron Paul, some are beginning to understand that gas prices going up is not just about “demand and supply”, Government (backed by the GOP -and- the Democratic Party) is …

ED

Lesley Stahl takes an inside look into the world of Saudi Aramco, the world leader in crude oil production and the country’s sole source of wealth and power.

ERICH

In which John discusses rounding in math and how oil companies use it to cheat you out of millions of pennies on your gasoline purchases. Visit Nerdfighteria: http://www.nerdfighters.com You can email exxon here: http://www.exxonmobil.com/Imports/contactus/contactus_contact.aspx This is the letter I wrote them: Dear Exxon, My name is John Green. I am a novelist and videoblogger. Due to your use of radically unfair traditional methods of rounding mathematics (which rounds up 5/9ths of the …

DENIS

The historic swings in oil prices last year were the result of financial speculation from Wall Street and not supply and demand. Steve Kroft investigates.

FORREST

Peak Moment 130: Drawing parallels with the current financial meltdown, Matthew Simmons expresses his alarm about gasoline stocks being the lowest in several decades and refinery production down following recent hurricanes. He warns that if there were a run on the “energy bank” by everyone topping off their gasoline tanks, the US would be out of fuel in three days, and grocery shelves largely emptied in a week. In an interview plus excerpts from his presentation at the Association for the …

BRYCE

A description of what is required to replace oil production.

GLENN

MEGA DISASTERS explores the worst of what could happen. “The oil that runs our world won’t last forever. The gap between supply and demand is ever-growing. Even without increasing our current rate of consumption we will empty the Earth’s large but finite reservoirs in a relatively short time. Will alternative energy save us or is it already too late? What would happen to the world as we know it when our oil dependent industries come to a grinding halt? A worldwide depression is a certainty …

EMILE

Sep 2002 In Sudan, a vicious civil war over oil has cost thousands of Sudanese lives.

CLIFF