Why Your World Is about to Get a Whole Lot Smaller : Oil and the End of Globalization (Hardcover)

from Scrabblenut

This is one of the best books I have read that analyzes our current economical woes and predicts what the future will look like when the oil supply dwindles and prices go sky-high (and both will happen for sure, as you will read in the book). And yet the future may look a lot like the past and we...

from bkinetic

This is one of the most insightful and level-headed books to emerge from authors who have recognized that the age of cheap fuel is over. Rubin sees a shift to a more local way of life due to the decline of cheap fuel, which also means a decline in global trading of heavy goods. He presciently env...

from Scrabblenut

This is one of the best books I have read that analyzes our current economical woes and predicts what the future will look like when the oil supply dwindles and prices go sky-high (and both will happen for sure, as you will read in the book). And yet the future may look a lot like the past and we...

from thebookpile

This book is accessible without being simplistic. Having read many books about environmental issues by environmentalists and politicians, a book by an economist provides a very interesting perspective and compelling reasons to change our habits. Unfortunately, although the text is easy to read, t...

from rsummer

Based on a barrel of oil costing over $100.00 , Rubin details how much our lifestyle is connected to oil. Rich western countries were built on cheap oil. Dramatic changes will ensue and rapidly if oil stays in triple digit cost. Economists are known to pessimistic and their projections often wron...