How the US can survive Peak Oil

The new George Clooney film, 'Syriana' exposes some of the murky geopolitical issues surrounding oil. But it won't help Americans to survive Peak Oil, says Jim Kunstler in The Daily Reckoning. He has some suggestions as to what will...

Anyone who sees 'Syriana,' the new George Clooney movie about political hugger-mugger in a Middle East oil kingdom, will not come away with an enhanced understanding of the global oil predicament.

They'll see a dark, brooding, and impressively restrained story with one brief car chase, few explosions, and barely a bullet flying. They'll sense several layers of intense paranoia that seem to suggest almost no one in authority in America can be trusted about anything. They'll see a foreign culture depicted as (to crib a phrase from Winston Churchill) a riddle, wrapped in an enigma, wrapped in a hairball.

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