The energy crisis is for real

While national security is certainly sufficient reason to develop domestic energy sources, this author reminds us that a deeper, more persistend force is at work -- we're using up our easily extracted energy reserves. -- Jeffrey Goettemoeller
Ponying Up for Alternative-Fuel Research:
by Warren Brown -- washingtonpost.com -- 2/26/2006
"We actually are running out of oil. It has little to do with manipulation of oil futures, stocks, per-barrel prices or even violent upheavals in oil-producing nations. The bottom line is that the world is producing less of the stuff as global demand for it is increasing."