Uploaded July 2012 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
What will it take to bring America back to the status of an independent and strong nation?
Dan Chiras explores our energy addiction. He details the unwelcomed results of global warming, energy dependance, war and geopolitical instability. Chiras outlines our addiction to oil and how entering the peak oil era is a wake up call. Peak oil is the call for everyone to begin conserving and finding renewable and sustainable sources of heat, electricity, and transportation. There is time to change, but we must start now.
"Peak oil means the end of cheap oil...We are going to be looking at a tremendous crunch with supply and demand... Oil wells are running dry... We haven't made a major oil discovery since the late 1960s... We are pinning our hopes on a declining resource... Natural gas and oil are both on decline... We are not set up to import natural gas... Bottom line is that we've got to get serious about this energy thing real soon..."
Dan Chiras is an author of dozens of books including renewable energy and green building. He is a passive solar design consultant and a teacher at Colorado college. He lectures all around the country, and has lived in a renewable energy home for 30 years.
Local Future Network
Videographer/Editor: Aaron Wissner
What will it take to bring America back to the status of an independent and strong nation?
Dan Chiras explores our energy addiction. He details the unwelcomed results of global warming, energy dependance, war and geopolitical instability. Chiras outlines our addiction to oil and how entering the peak oil era is a wake up call. Peak oil is the call for everyone to begin conserving and finding renewable and sustainable sources of heat, electricity, and transportation. There is time to change, but we must start now.
"Peak oil means the end of cheap oil...We are going to be looking at a tremendous crunch with supply and demand... Oil wells are running dry... We haven't made a major oil discovery since the late 1960s... We are pinning our hopes on a declining resource... Natural gas and oil are both on decline... We are not set up to import natural gas... Bottom line is that we've got to get serious about this energy thing real soon..."
Dan Chiras is an author of dozens of books including renewable energy and green building. He is a passive solar design consultant and a teacher at Colorado college. He lectures all around the country, and has lived in a renewable energy home for 30 years.
Local Future Network
Videographer/Editor: Aaron Wissner
