PowerSwitch news

It has been two months since the last newsletter and an incredible amount has gone on (both in the world of Peak Oil and also in my own life, hence the delay in this newsletter). We've seen the BBC begin to talk more and more about Peak Oil, on the fringes at the moment but getting closer to its mainstream broadcasting. The Independent had a large pullout section dedicated to it. There will be a documentary on More4 soon about it. Sweden wants to be the first Oil-free economy by 2020 ( I think that is voluntarily oil-free!). Pf. Deffeyes has claimed we've passed the peak of oil why others such as the Chief-Executive of Shell have admitted we've passed the peak of easy oil.

Peak Oil is now being talked about in the corridors of the EU and George Bush took the whole of Oilaholics Anonymous and admitted publicly for the first time that America is addicted to oil. George, it isn't just America…

We have passed a tipping point of opinion – it is now accepted that the era of cheap energy is over. It is a primary, and very important step to have been made.
However, if Deffeyes and the Independent are correct, we've passed the oil peak and the point of no return for climate change. I don't know how correct they are, but if we haven't already, it is pretty clear we will do soon.

Read the news, absorb it, tell your friends, write letters to your MP, heads of businesses and organisations...what is the point of this information if we do not use it to mitigate what is to come?