Journalist Tom Whipple Portland – March 14 Tom strikes again. Once again, the Falls Church News-Press alerts me to the news of the completion of the Report by the Portland Task force on Peak Oil, commissioned by the Portland City Council in May, 2006, with instructions to recommend actions to deal with that impending crisis. [...]

Peak Oil In the mid-1950s Shell Oil petroleum geologist M. King Hubbert published a prediction that U.S. oil production would peak in 1970 and decline steadily after that date. His prediction was scorned until he was proven right.. His acolyte Ken Deffeyes, who worked under him and improved his methodology, forecast not long ago that [...]