<html><body> <DIV>From the review it looks like Phillips addresses "peak oil" in this book.  One wonders whether he actually believes it (or  just sees a ploy increase sales of his book) and whether his voice is representative of the circles of power in which he once traveled. SR</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message -------------- <BR>From: "Jim Devine" <jdevine03@gmail.com> <BR><BR>> http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/03/16/phillips/ <BR>> Decline and fall <BR>> Kevin Phillips, no lefty, says that America -- addicted to oil, strangled <BR>> by debt and maniacally religious -- is headed for doom. <BR>> <BR>> By Michelle Goldberg <BR><BR>> mess. All of that, after all, was true toward the end of Vietnam as well. <BR>> Now, though, there are all kinds of other lurking catastrophes, a whole <BR>> armory of swords of Damocles dangling over a bloated, dispirited and <BR>> anxious country. Peak oil -- the point at which oil production maxes out -- <BR>> seems to be approaching, with disastrous consequences for America's economy <BR>> and infrastructure. <BR></BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>