The peak oil crisis: the future of government. The peak oil crisis: the future of government Posted Dec 8, 2010 by Tom Whipple In case you missed it, a couple of weeks back the International Energy Agency in Paris got around to disclosing that the all-time peak of global conventional oil production occurred back in 2006. Despite that fact that this declaration was tantamount to announcing the end of the 250-year-old industrial age, few in the … more →