Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil » (Reprint)

David Goodstein, vice provost and Frank J. Galloon Distinguished Teaching and Service Professor at the California Institute of Technology, is the author of Feynman's Lost Lecture, among other works. He lives in Pasadena.

Science tells us that an oil crisis is inevitable. Why and when? And what will our future look like without our favorite fuel?

The New York Times

I hope Goodstein is wrong. I wish we could dismiss him as an addled environmentalist, too much in love with his windmill to know which way the wind is blowing. On the strength of the evidence, and his argument, however, we can't. If he's right, I'm sorry for my kids. And I'm especially sorry for theirs. — Paul Raeburn