Ohio Peak Oil Action

Is The World About To Be Running On Empty? As evidence emerges of dwindling oil reserves, the price of crude hits $135 a barrel --- In France, fishermen are blockading oil refineries. In Britain, lorry drivers are planning a day of action. In the US, the car maker Ford is to cut production... (read more)

Exerpts - “Transportation has the fastest growing carbon emissions of any economic sector and automobiles are largely to blame with more than 600 million passenger vehicles now cruising the world’s roads. ” “Today, the real task is … to create … a ‘people’s transport system.’ Addressing the climate crisis requires entirely new... (read more)

Exerpts - "The seemingly limitless reserves of petroleum that fueled the past century’s exodus from the farm are about half gone. From here on, fossil fuels — and all the everyday essentials that depend on them, like transportation and food — will grow increasingly costly. Without some miraculous new energy source, muscle... (read more)

The Boston Globe - "China’s Not Alone in Environmental Crisis" Exerpts - China is a "country choking on its own 'success,' now producing over 20 percent of global greenhouse gases" "The West has worked long and hard to transform China into what it is today: an industrial platform for the world where some... (read more)

The Guardian - "We've been suckered again by the US. So far the Bali deal is worse than Kyoto" "America will keep on wrecking climate talks as long as those with vested interests in oil and gas fund its political system" Exerpts - "In 1997 and in 2007 [the US] got the best... (read more)

An Open Letter to Representative Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland: Proposal for a National “OIL DEPLETION MITIGATION BILL” By Theresa Bratton Co-Director of www.OhioPeakOilAction.org Representative Bartlett, I am writing to thank you for your efforts to raise awareness surrounding the issue of global peak oil production in the U.S. Congress. I am sorry... (read more)

We are currently working on establishing the "Granville Relocalization and Sustainability Effort" which will soon become it's own Post Carbon/Relocalize.net affiliate! ... (read more)