Crude Addiction – an interview with Samsam Bakhtiari

If you believe a number of growing voices on the subject, our industrialised, oil based global economy teeters precariously on the verge of a spectacular crisis. If you believe the peak oil theorists, 2006 marks the year of peak oil, the global peak of crude oil production.

For the peak oil set, the theory is simple. For six generations, the world has gorged on a ready supply of cheap oil. This fundamental commodity has proven to be in abundant supply


Such views belong to a small but growing league of global oil experts like the Tehran based Dr Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari.

Dr Bakhtiari