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You know... There's been a lot of talk

about Abraham Lincoln.

But the president we need today

is not Abraham Lincoln.

The president we need today

is Thomas Jefferson.

He said that we needed a revolution

every generation.

Thomas Jefferson said you have to be ready in order to

preserve the vitality of your liberty and your freedom,

to defend it, nothing by overthrowing anything else

except for what you've been holding in your head,

that may not be applicable anymore.

We've gotten very lazy, where many generations

are overdue for revolution, and are thinking.

I'm not talking about blood and violence,

although I'm afraid that's already happening.

I'm talking about a revolution that's

probably the hardest kind.

The kind that takes place in the human soul,

in the human mind.

To be able to tear everything down,

throw everything out, and start with

a completely fresh paper and say...

okay, how do we solve this problem?

Uhm, can you talk to me a little bit-

Who-who are you?

Listen, this is not a plan that would

make sense to anybody except God.

You know, I gave up trying to figure

that out a long time ago.

I was born into a family deeply connected to

the US intelligence community.

My mother had been a cryptanalyst at the

army security agency at NSA

in World War II.

Her work product went to

president Roosevelt,

and to the secretary of war, Stimson,

and Cordell Hull, secretary of state.

My father was an airforce aviator who went to work for

contracts for the CIA and the airforce,

namely the Titan III-c, which put up the

CIA's keyhole spy satellite.

Uhm, at age 19,

when I was interning for LAPD,

I was pulled into the chief's office, because

somebody discovered I had a cue clearance.

I didn't know anything about it.

I went home and asked dad,

and he said, yeah, because you're my son

and they have to do that,

because I might leave my briefcase open.

But a cue was a secret, compartimentalized

clearance above top secret.

I went through UCLA as a republican,

who didn't like anything about the war in Vietnam,

who didn't like, uhm,

anything about government with this naive belief that you

can get inside the system and change it from the inside.

I became an LA policeman.

Worked in South Central, Los Angeles,

in the Jungle, and the CIA tried,

unofficially, to recruit me into an operation where

they were smuggling drugs into the country,

back in 1976, 1977.

And I wouldn't get involved in that.

You know, I thought, geez, this must be

an isolated incident of corruption.

This must be something that everybody's

gonna wanna try to correct right away.

And of course that was a mistake.

Basically, my life desintegrated because

I was betrayed by a woman who worked for CIA,

who was my fiance. And when I said I wouldn't

get involved in drugs, she disappeared,

and people started shooting at me.

And then, it was a matter of saving my life.

The tools which I acquired to save my life then,

which were, you know, writing letters to congressmen,

getting on the record,

trying to get newspaper stories written,

those were survival skills, but it was

also a part of learning how things worked.

I was a map maker, if you will, a cartographer.

Going out to try and map how

the world really worked,

as opposed to the way we were told it worked.

And the map that we had made,

has proved so startlingly accurate over 10 years,

whether they had to do with gold prices,

or geopolitical developments,

or economic events.

The only thing that amazes me, is the speed

with which things are falling apart.

And that message now is the single

most important thing in my life.

It's the only thing in my life. Well, except for

rock and roll music, good music,

playing with my dog,

and long walks on the beach.

Rex, come here.

I first became focused on energy issues in late 2001.

Uhm, just at maybe a month or two after 9/11.

I was contacted by a geologist,

a brilliant guy named

Dale Allen Pfeiffer,

who introduced me to the concept of peak oil,

and the basic issues about energy, and helped me

to realize that there was a great deal of evidence

in 2001, not only that peak oil was very real,

but that government agencies were acting

and responding as if it was very real.

All plastic is oil. Most paints,

all pesticides are made from oil.

Everything from toothpaste, to toothbrushes,

is made from oil.

There are seven gallons of oil in every tire.

There is nothing anywhere,

in any combination that will replace

the edifice built by fossil fuels.

Nothing.

Peak oil is probably now very easy to explain.

Much easier than it was a long time ago.

People have felt what 147 dollar

a barrel oil feels like.

Essentially, peak oil is like

if you know what a Bell curve is,

goes up, comes down.

Peak oil is the point of oil production when

you're at the top of the Bell curve.

And essentially, what that means,

is you've used up half of the resource.

Uhm, but in the case of oil, or any other substance

like that, no matter how much money you throw at it,

you're never gonna be able to increase

oil production above where it was at peak.

As of 2008, the international energy agency

has admitted that there is a global 9%

decline rate in oil production.

That's the equivalent of about 8 million barrels a day.

There is no way, having plucked all the low

hanging fruit and found the big reservoirs,

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