Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller - What the Price of Oil Means for the Way we Live

We are poised on the brink of massive change. Our civilisation depends entirely upon cheap oil. It is the fuel that keeps the machinery of globalisation in motion; without it our way of life will grind to a halt. But as oil prices fluctuate and high prices become the norm rather than the exception, our oil-dependent lifestyles will become untenable...