Oil Rules?!

This is the first installment of Chaos+Complexity News. These are news items that we believe reveal our fragile interconnection and point to a real need for changing the way we think and act in the world. Enjoy…?

My friend and colleague Norio Suzuki has an excellent article by Michael Klare on his blog at Integral Japan. This article is the most lucid discussion of the complex web of oil-related dynamics complicating the present and shaping our future that I have read. Here is a sample:

Oil at $110 a barrel. Gasoline at $3.35 (or more) per gallon. Diesel fuel at $4 per gallon. Independent truckers forced off the road. Home heating oil rising to unconscionable price levels. Jet fuel so expensive that three low-cost airlines stopped flying in the past few weeks. This is just a taste of the latest energy news, signaling a profound change in how all of us, in this country and around the world, are going to live — trends that, so far as anyone can predict, will only become more pronounced as energy supplies dwindle and the global struggle over their allocation intensifies.

Read the rest at TomDispatch or here, on Norio’s blog. 

Tags: global energy, peak oil