A growing number of international geologists and analysts warn of a looming catastrophe with the onset of the decline in the global supply of oil (2). Likewise, reports by several federal agencies, including the US Army Corps of Engineers, point to the need for immediate action, because the foreseeable impacts on our infrastructure and economy are without precedent (3).

Please sign our petition, calling on President Obama and Congress to direct an immediate scientific investigation by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

Peak Oil will present our Nation with multiple and continuing crises that will require hard decisions. With a near-term peak, for example, we face the likelihood of shortages of gasoline and diesel fuel, along with the problem of how to allocate limited supplies. Beyond the direct effect on the movement of people and goods, we might well have difficulty maintaining components of our vital infrastructure such as roads, pipelines and the electrical grid. (4).

The National Academy of Sciences is the only source that can provide unbiased and authoritative answers to the questions of how to manage in the era of the “remorseless decline” in available oil and natural gas. The Academies occupy a special place, due to their unique history and mission as the scientific advisors to the Nation (5).

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Before you do anything else, go straight to www.howtoboilafrog.com and get a look at the HTBAF movie trailer – note you can make it bigger by clicking on the green GO button.  Let us know what you think! We still have to raise about $1.25 million to pay for the stock footage & music rights, the missing pieces of animation, post production to finish it properly for a theatrical release, and so on – but we DO have a movie!  Anyone who wants to help us find some or all of the money is welcome to become part of the club of money-finders. You too can help save civilization with comedy!
 
Next, check out our mini-interview of the week from Friend o’ the Frog and Vancouver Peak Oil expert Rick Balfour.  Rick is an architect and urban planner with a real vision for how to prepare for a future that will include global warming, peak oil, mass migration and other little bumps in the road.  At http://www.howtoboilafrog.com/#video, Rick discusses the peak oil motion he brought before the Vancouver, BC Planning Commission - a motion that was turned down in 2006, but is now being recognized as a necessary basis for long overdue changes in Vancouver's urban design. For more information on Balfour's simulated peak oil "war games", and the book that resulted from them, visit his site at http://www.plancanada.com/.
 

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