Germany’s Peak Oil Plans

“It’s somehow reassuring the German government has planning in place in the event of peak oil and the potential global oil shortages that would result. What’s less confidence-inspiring are the dire predictions Germany has made as to what will happen should a trickling oil supply leave world economies in a lurch. A newly-leaked study—which Der Spiegel has confirmed is authentic—out of the Bundeswehr Transformation Center’s Future Analysis division—which advises the German military—paints a bleak picture of the post-peak oil world, including a complete market collapse and various forms of social unrest.”