Author offers bleak peek at life after ‘peak oil’

Someday the planet will run out of oil. It may be sooner, it may be later, but that day is coming, say most petroleum geologists. They refer to the point where we’ve used up half of the planet’s fossil fuels as “peak oil” and once we’ve passed that point, many social scientists predict significant and alarming changes.

On Tuesday, author Richard Heinberg will speak in Eugene about the repercussions of dwindling fossil fuels.