There may never be a ‘shock moment’ of peak oil’s arrival; instead, peak oil may continue to play out as a gradual, unplanned transition to a new set of energy and consumption patterns that are less oil dependent, giving rise to social, economic, and ecological impacts that no one can predict with any certainty. [1] A key focus among the several hundred blog posts here has been my expression of concern that we’ve done almost no planning and very little preparation to deal with the consequences and challenges of peak oil. As Dr. Samuel Alexander noted in another of his well-considered reports on the topic, we’re not all going to awaken one morning to the Breaking News that peak oil has arrived. There will be several reasons for the absence of that advisory, not the least of which is that peak oil—insofar as conventional crude oil production is concerned […]