How $100 oil will change your life

As a new era of expensive energy has arrived, our reporters survey the unnerving implications for consumers and nations

….The latest figures, for the August-October period of last year, show that energy use in homes, shops and offices was down another 0.1% (after taking weather conditions into account).

Some observers fear the energy crisis will go beyond high prices into outright shortages. David Strahan, author of The Last Oil Shock: A Survival Guide to the Imminent Extinction of Petroleum Man, is one.