Tom Whipple Post Carbon Institute

Tom Whipple

Fellow, Peak Oil

Tom Whipple is one of the most highly respected analysts of peak oil issues in the United States. A retired 30-year CIA analyst who has been following the peak oil story since 1999, Tom is the editor of the daily Peak Oil News and the weekly Peak Oil Review, both published by the Association for the Study of Peak Oil-USA. He is also a weekly columnist on peak oil issues for the Falls Church News Press. Tom has degrees from Rice University and the London School of Economics.

Articles / Blogs

The Peak Oil Crisis: A Reality Check
Tom Whipple
October 30, 2014
00100For the last four or five years, we have been bombarded with a stream of stories about the “shale revolution.” Horizontal drilling and fracking, mostly in the U.S., were said to have released oceans of new oil and a...

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The Peak Oil Crisis: It‘s All Around Us
Tom Whipple
September 18, 2014
00100 Ten years ago peak oil was assumed to be a rather straightforward, transparent process. What was then thought of as “oil” production was going to stop growing around the middle of the last decade. Shortages were going to...

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The Peak Oil Crisis: When?
Tom Whipple
August 25, 2014
00200For those following the world oil production situation, it has been clear for some time that the only factor keeping global crude output from moving lower is the continuing increase in U.S. shale oil production, mostly from Texas and...

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The Peak Oil Crisis: Iraq on the Precipice
Tom Whipple
June 27, 2014
00000The daily newspapers are now full of stories predicting that Iraq, as we know it, will soon disintegrate into three or more warring states. In the last two weeks Sunni insurgents led by the extremist ISIS have routed a...

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The Peak Oil Crisis: The Monterey Shale Debacle
Tom Whipple
May 28, 2014
00000Last week the LA Times ran a story saying that the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is about to reduce “its” estimate of the amount of shale oil that can be recovered from the Monterey Shale under California by...

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The Peak Oil Crisis: Looking at 2013
Tom Whipple
January 24, 2013
00000We are only a few weeks into the New Year and already the shape of the next 11 months is starting to form. To start, the U.S. Department of Energy sees two good years in front of us, with...

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Reports

Peak Oil and the Great Recession
Tom Whipple
May 26, 2011
00000Missing Attachment The year 2008 will be remembered as a major turning point in industrial history, for it was the first year when the world got a taste of the unpredictable price spikes that come from inadequate oil supplies. ...

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Books

The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises
John Kaufmann, Daniel Lerch, Bill Sheehan, Anthony Perl, William Rees, Tom Whipple, Stephanie Mills, Peter Whybrow, Michael Shuman, David Orr, Cindy Parker, Chris Martenson, Brian Schwartz, Richard Gilbert, Warren Karlenzig, Wes Jackson, David Hughes, Rob Hopkins, David Fridley, Gloria Flora, Joshua Farley, Hillary Brown, Michael Bomford, Asher Miller, Zenobia Barlow, Sandra Postel, Richard Heinberg, Erika Allen, Bill Ryerson
October 10, 2010
00100Missing Attachment How do population, water, energy, food, and climate issues impact one another? What can we do to address one problem without making the others worse? The Post Carbon Reader features essays by some of the world’s most...

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Articles / Blogs

The Peak Oil Crisis: A Reality Check

The Peak Oil Crisis: It‘s All Around Us

The Peak Oil Crisis: When?

The Peak Oil Crisis: Iraq on the Precipice

The Peak Oil Crisis: The Monterey Shale Debacle

The Peak Oil Crisis: Looking at 2013

Reports

Peak Oil and the Great Recession

Books

The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises