I was going to add these to my last post, but here are some more videos on Peak Oil:

Peak Oil - Journeyman.tv
10:09 minutes, full 45 minute documentary costs £1 to watch

This one starts with Mad Max, but is a fairly sober treatment from way back in 2006.

Peak Oil & Economic Collapse - Megan Quinn Bachman
Part One 10 minutes, Part Two 5 minutes

A few years ago, several of the staid Oil Drum types attending a conference fell over themselves complimenting Megan Quinn's beauty, so it is funny to actually see her on video. She was promoting the idea that we could learn from Cuba's experiences running a culture on very little fossil fuel, and change our culture to use less energy. Community Solutions calls that Plan C.

Plan A - More and dirtier fuels like tar sands, oil shale, coal-to-liquids, and "clean" coal (bury CO2) to keep up with growing energy consumption.

Plan B - The "clean and green" approach proposes using large-scale renewables like wind, solar, biofuels and hydrogen to maintain our high energy way of life and keep us complacent and consuming.

Plan C - Our strategy of culture change, conservation and curtailment.

You Can Survive Peak Oil -New Energy Crisis, Fuel Shortage 1
24 minutes in three parts

This guy is wearing a lab coat to indicate that he must be smarter than you or me. You're going to hear a lot of very generalized predictions based on a return to some past scenario or based on some futuristic story like Blade Runner or The Road. I think the future will be very granular with great local variation.

Weak third world countries like Sudan, Eritrea, Zimbabwe are already struggling to buy oil. Pakistan is already struggling to maintain electricity to power their export business. Resource war may break out at any time, but big wars require energy.

There's also a website, but it is no more convincing than the video:

There are about 100,000,000 (One hundred million) pet dogs in the U.S., many will be released by their owners to run free as their owners experience unemployment and the inability to purchase food for their pet animal. Dog owners are reluctant to kill their pets, and will simply set them loose - these animals will gather and run in packs, easily capable of killing an unarmed man. Every year many children are mauled by dogs, many suffer disfigurement and permanent injury . This danger will not be something most people will consider until it is too late. Expect the danger of attack and injury by will dogs to increase exponentially after 2010 - 2012. This is only one of the many unexpected dangers that will be present in the post-carbon era.

So Beverly Hills really will be conquered by Chihuahuas. Actually, there are already reports that owners of foreclosed homes are abandoning their pets.

Eventually, by 2050 or so, the civil disorder will subside, and a new civilization will arise from the ashes. Sky scrapers, super highways and bridges will be abandoned and in ruins, the final reminders of an oil-based civilization that once dominated the landscape. Law and order will probably never return, at least not for several lifetimes.

I call this the Thundarr the Barbarian scenario.