The Completion of the Oil Era : The Economic Impact

This book is divided into seven chapters, an annex, and a conclusion, and they all aim towards the following objectives: to investigate how much conventional and non-conventional oil is left in the world, to examine all the different alternative energy sources and find out their different development stages, to inform economist so that they can bring together the different economic growth scenarios to find out, by considering world demand, how much oil is left in the world in qualitative terms. That is to say, how much time can we economists/politicians can buy the scientists for their development of the transition paths towards renewable energy sources with a minimum of economic and social repercussion. In the last chapter, multilateral negotiating insights are provided through game theory. In the conclusions, a long-standing economic equation is re-written in energy terms, a blueprint scenario is unveiled, and a strategy is proposed to accomplish this all-important objective. The decisive factor in our century The end of the oil civilization? Energy alternatives The bridge : the non-conventional reserves Economists & scientists An oil plan The case for economic cooperation.