Alright, guess we'll just have to make the best of living at the peak of cheap energy consumption, and prepare ourselves for the inevitable. What gives me hope is, if there's one constant in history, it's how wrong the predictions of the future were.
An interesting line from Popular Science:
"Largely as a result of technological advances, the U.S. now uses 47 percent less energy per dollar of economic output than it did 30 years ago."
PopSci's entertaining little article is here:
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/energy/
Interestingly, they have a bit on Tony Ellsworth in there.