When the crude runs out: Life after oil

Burly, blue-eyed and with an outdoor blush to his face, Peter Kendall looks exactly like the successful Home Counties farmer he is. But he is producing oil, at the cutting edge of an energy revolution unexpectedly endorsed by President George Bush last week.

Mr Kendall farms 1,500 acres in the village of Eyeworth, in Bedfordshire. Not long ago, it was a traditional local farm – now 400 acres are devoted to growing crops, not for food, but for fuel.