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

“We’re literally stuck up a cul-de-sac in a cement SUV without a fill-up” - James Howard Kunstler Global oil peak and the inevitable decline of fossil fuels are upon us now, Are today’s suburbs destined to become the slums of the future? This is a short version of “The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream”, a documentary about the end of the age of cheap oil. The complete 78-minute version of The End of Suburbia is available on DVD at www.endofsuburbia.com …

ALLEN

Coconut oil is truly the healthiest oil you can consume. It is rich in lauric acid, which is known for being antiviral, antibacterial and antifungal, and contains no trans fat (even olive oil has some trans fat). You can even use it on your skin to help prevent wrinkles.

Learn more about the health benefits that coconut oil has to offer in this video!

CLEMENT

Lesley Stahl meets with officials in Saudi Arabia and takes a tour of its vast petroleum facilities, which are gearing up to produce even more oil.

FILIBERTO

A Matt Simmons phone interview on CNBC. He’s gotten pretty pessimistic, even doomerish lately.

BORIS

Awash in oil, yet its people, for the most part, are destitute. Nigeria discovered “liquid gold” half a century ago and today is the world’s eighth largest oil exporter. But the country is plagued by corruption, inefficiency, underdevelopment and an uprising in its Niger Delta — the area where most of its oil reserves are located. So why, some 600 billion dollars later, are Nigeria’s people still among the poorest in the world? Is it the ‘resource curse’ or something more?

FELIX

While gas prices have dropped, an Eastern Shore man says he still pays far less than the rest of us because he’s making fuel for himself. 11 News reporter Lisa Robinson says it’s a story she could smell a mile away.

AHMED