Paper: After Petroleum Is Gone, What Then Organic Carbon Sources For Alternative Transportation Fuels

Dire predictions regarding the availability of petroleum and continuation of our present civilization, are indicated by the title of a recent presentation "The Peak of World Oil Production and the Road to the Olduvai Gorge," which predicts the crash of civilization in 2030." There are other more conservative predictions for just a peak in petroleum production in 2005. In a previous paper at this conference I projected the peak in oil production to 2040.