Political Peak Oil: Price Spikes to $100 on Nigerian Unrest

When Supplies are This Tight, Human Violence Breeds Price Volatility

…This is peak oil.

No, it’s not that we’ve pumped up every drop of crude oil that million-year-old plankton provided for us. Not necessarily. This isn’t geologic peak oil. It’s political peak oil.


Here’s how we define political peak oil at The Daily Green: The world supply of oil is tight, tight enough that any disruption