Introduction To Peak Oil

We have talked here before about an event that results in a a sudden shortage of oil. We have usually talked about a terrorist attack in Saudia Arabia or another oil producing area. For the United States it looks like the Introduction to the realities of peak oil may have been very warm water in the form of Hurricane Katrina. The fact that people are thinking about peak oil today became obvious when I checked sitemeter for Middle Earth Journal and found multiple search engine hits for a post I did a few days ago on Gasoline from coal. Welcome to peak oil.