With a preface by Jean Laherrère.

While the quantities of oil consumed worldwide are increasing significantly each year, we discover two to three times fewer new sources of oil than we actually consume. Throughout its history, the exploitation of oil has encountered crises, but it seems that the next one will be on an unprecedented scale and will happen sooner than we expected.

Jean-Luc Wingert, in this revelatory book considered by the French “peakies” to be the best popular science book on oil and its oncoming depletion, tackles fundamental questions such as how the situation will evolve, whether we are facing a shortage, and, most importantly, how and with what alternative sources we can anticipate the “post-oil” age.