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Peak of the Devil: 100 Questions (and answers) about Peak Oil
By Chip Haynes
ISBN: 978-0-9818720-3-2

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The 100 Questions about Peak Oil this book will answer:

1. What’s this peak oil thing you keep jabbering on about?  
2. Well, whose fault is that?
3. Can we blame M. K. Hubbert?
4. Why should I care?
5. But everything looks great right now, doesn’t it?
6. How big is this, anyway?
7. Uncle Chippie, where does oil come from?  
8. Then where does gasoline come from?
9. So what else do we get from oil?
10. Can’t we just drill for more oil?
11. We need how much?
12. Those other countries are holding back, aren’t they?  
13. Is it OPEC’s fault?
14. What do you mean, “peak export”?
15. So is this about peak oil or peak export?
16. Are we going to run out of oil?
17. Technology will save us, won’t it?
18. We’ve got plenty of shale oil and tar sands, don’t we?
19. Won’t ethanol help?
20. What about biodiesel?
21. Maybe, um, hydrogen?
22. But we’ve got plenty of coal, don’t we?
23. Will natural gas help?
24. So maybe uranium’s the answer?    
25. What about all that other “alternative energy” stuff?
26. Don’t you mean E-I-E-I-O?
27. Scale? Like, scale model scale?         
28. So we have to scale down?
29. Can I blame the oil companies?
30. How about we get the government to help?
31. Gasoline costs what in Europe?
32. How about we tax gasoline less?
33. So maybe I should buy a smaller car?
34. What about an electric car?
35. Gotcha, Mister Smarty-Pants: What if I bought a bicycle?
36. Fine. I’ll walk. Happy now?
37. What do you mean it’s not about me?
38. Oh, so now it’s about food?
39. But we could all stand to lose a little weight, right?
40. It’s a world-wide problem?
41. Is this that “population bomb” thing?
42. Is there any way that this is not bad news?
43. What’s this going to do to the global economy?
44. What about the stock market?
45. What about my piggy bank?
46. What’s this going to do to my town?
47. And what do plastic pumpkins have to do with anything?
48. Can’t we just sort of down-size carefully?
49. Should I sell my RV?
50. Should I sell my boat?
51. What’s this going to do to travel?
52. What’s this going to do to travel destinations?
53. Now that you mention it, how safe is my job?
54. Why would you want to scare me like this?
55. What can I do about any of this, anyway?
56. How bad is it going to get?
57. How long will it last?
58. What happens next?
59. What do I tell my spouse?     
60. What do I tell the kids?
61. Am I going to save the cost of their college education?
62. What about having to buy the kid a car? 
63. And what do I tell the dog?
64. Do I need to move?
65. If I stay here, what can I expect?
66. What about the winters here?
67. What about the summers?
68. Is there anything that’s not a problem?
69. So it’s not that bad, right?
70. What can I do to make it better?
71. Do I have to sell my car?
72. Can I even get by without my car?
73. Does my life have to change that much?
74. Maybe if I go off and live in the woods?
75. Could I even survive in the woods?
76. Is any place going to better than here?
77. Is my home here in town safe?
78. Would I be safer in the country?
79. Am I safe anywhere?
80. Should I buy a gun?
81. What can we do as a nation?
82. What can my family do?
83. So I’ll really have to meet my neighbors?
84. Do you have to sing, “It’s a Small World”?
85. What do a monkey’s dealie-bobbers have to do with it?
86. What if there’s nothing near me?
87. This is really going to cost me, isn’t it?
88. Is this all part of that “green living” thing?
89. Ah, but living green will help, right?
90. What if I don’t feel like it?
91. Will this be a problem everywhere?
92. Why “The Dim Ages”?
93. Does it ever end?
94. So we’ll end up better off?
95. How do I improve my odds here?
96. What do I do first?
97. Who do I believe?
98. How will I know what’s really happening?
99. What’s the best we can hope for?
100. It’s going to end up alright, isn’t it?

About the author: Chip Haynes is a small, furry suburban Hobbit-like creature that has lived in Clearwater, Florida since 1969, having moved there with his family just one week after graduating from Frontier High School in New Matamoras, Ohio. (Go, Cougars!) Happily married to the Lovely JoAnn for over 21 years, Chip is a graphic artist by profession and a writer by sheer blind dumb luck. Chip’s long-standing interest in all things bicycling brought him (quite by accident) into the dark world of peak oil in 1997, where his interest in the subject of peak oil lead, eventually, to this book.

Chip and JoAnn tend to walk more than the average suburbanites, but their neighbors are mostly used to that by now, and are never surprised to see them trundling along on foot a mile from home. They also ride their many bicycles and tricycles to nearby stores and recycle like it actually matters. (To them, it does.) Their home has become a laboratory for living light and the trees in their yard actually do get hugged from time to time. They spend a lot of their spare time reading. You should, too.