by Paul Roberts - £8.99 Bloomsbury (2005)
paperback
ISBN 13: 9780747570813 | ISBN 10: 0747570817
Billions of people around the world enjoy an unprecedented standard of living based on one thing: oil. And each year we demand more. Everything we buy, from a McDonald's hamburger to cancer drugs, represents a measure of energy produced and consumed. But how can this sustain itself, when already we have burned our way through half the easily available oil?
Yet the pursuit of fuel is relentless. In this devastating piece of reportage, Paul Roberts shows what is likely to happen, why the transition from oil will be complicated, traumatic and possibly dangerous, and what it will mean for our daily lives.
"A tour de force... an outstandingly clear, lucid and readable book about a highly complex issue that is central to our times. If I could recommend some books for George Bush and Tony Blair to read, this would be one of them."
(Michael Meacher, Guardian.)
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