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Further Recommended Reading on Peak Oil<br />

Ranking of US federal states that depend significantly on oil as well as of those that have<br />

taken measures to free themselves from this dependence:<br />

Gardiner, David et al., Fighting Oil Addiction: Ranking States’ Oil Vulnerability<br />

and Solutions for Change. National Resources Defense Council, July 2008,<br />

http://www.nrdc.org/energy/states/states.pdf (accessed on 14 October 2010).<br />

Study based on the research hypothesis that some US cities are better prepared than<br />

others for an increase in oil prices and a potential disruption in oil supply (ranking):<br />

Karlenzig, Warren, Major US City Preparedness for an Oil Crisis: Which<br />

Cities and Metro Areas are Best Prepared for $4 a Gallon Gas and<br />

Beyond?, Common Current, March 2008,<br />

http://www.commoncurrent.com/pubs/OilCrisis3.4.08.final.pdf<br />

(accessed on 14 October2010).<br />

Description of the energy supply situation in the form of trends with a focus on<br />

implications for the American armed forces:<br />

Eileen T. Westervelt und Donald F. Fournier, Energy Trends and Their<br />

Implications for U.S. Army Installations, Engineer Research and<br />

Development Center, September 2005,<br />

http://static.cbslocal.com/station/wcco/news/specialreports/projectener<br />

gy/06_0420_projectenergy_energytrendsreportfromarmycorps.pdf<br />

(accessed on 14 October 2010).<br />

This study, which was compiled for the US Department of Defence, identifies four areas<br />

(strategic, operational, fiscal, ecological) in which there is a gap between the practice of<br />

current energy consumption and the requirements for achieving future strategic<br />

objectives:<br />

Thomas D. Crowley et al., Transforming the Way DoD Looks at Energy. An<br />

Approach to Establishing an Energy Strategy, LMI Government<br />

Consulting, April 2007, http://www.dtic.mil/cgibin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA467003&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf<br />

(accessed on 14 October 2010).<br />

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