The Oil Depletion Protocol.
http://www.oildepletionprotocol.org/ When oil is recognised as
scarce, it will be hoarded and the price will rise to levels that will
stop international trade. How the world can avoid profiteering by oil
companies and producing countries and thus avoid the pain of wars and
starvation.
The Hirsch report.
Commissioned and
ignored by the United States government. Hirsch et al calculate that the
United States needs twenty years to rebuild a low oil consumption economy.
A description:
http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?from=rss_&fArticleId=3444622
A more recent paper by Robert L. Hirsch 'Peaking
of World Oil Production - Recent Forecasts was written in February
2007 and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy
Technology Laboratory.