These two posts on Yergin's take on peak oil led me to a blog I'd not seen before, Knowledge Problem.
Students know how much I love to use "why we will never run out of oil" as a way to demonstrate the value of thinking like an economist. Now I'm looking though older posts. Like a kid in a candy shop...
Check out this one too, on whale oil:
ReplyDeletehttp://knowledgeproblem.com/2011/08/29/whales-and-electricity-and-sustainability/