The NEW and IMPROVED Blue Dog Rising is here!

Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for your patience with Blue Dog Rising.  I've decided to change direction and turn this blog into the voice for Post-Petroleum life on this planet; and you're all invited to join in.

So the questions begin . . .

What will Post-Petroleum America and the world look like?  Will it be the apocalyptic world of Mad Max and The Postman?  Or will it be the optimistic views of friends of mine where all of our problems are solved and we live happily ever after?  What will we use for fuel without oil?  Where will be live?  How will we cope with these problems?  

We will be discussing these questions and more on this page for the foreseeable future.  Any comments, concerns, questions, quips, etc (to paraphrase one of my favorite professors) are welcome and encouraged.  I will be posting links to interesting articles and suggesting books and authors for my audience (and here's to hoping that there is an audience for this) to check out.

So to begin with, here are a few books you should look at, if you haven't already.  Each of these addresses, in some facet, the growing problem of Peak Oil and how it can and will change the way we live our lives:

The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook:  Recipes for Changing Times by Albert Bates

The Party's Over:  Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies  by Richard Heinberg

Twilight in the Desert:  The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy  by Matthew Simmons

Stay tuned to this blog for future posts including news items and writings of our Post-Petroleum Planning group!