Tom Whipple: The Top 10 Peak-Oil-Related Stories of 2008

1. The Global Recession

2. Price Volatility: Who Knew?

3. Falling Investment = Building the Big Boomerang

4. The IEA Changes its Stance (will U.S. EIA, CERA and Exxon-Mobil follow?)

5. The Campaign and the Elections

6. OPEC Cuts Production

7. The Large Exporters: from Boom to Busted

8. Shale Gas: Game Changer or Rope-a-Dope? [or “a mixed blessing”]

9. Food vs. Fuel Hit Pocketbooks Worldwide

10. Global Production Peaks, on the Production Plateau