About the Author

Name: Richard Vodra

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Bio: Richard (Dick) Vodra, JD, CFP, has been a financial planning practitioner in Northern Virginia since 1985. He is a graduate of the College of Wooster and the Yale Law School. He is an active member of the Financial Planning Association. He has been following the Peak Oil and Global Climate Change issues carefully since 2002, and has been an ASPO member since 2006.

Articles by Richard Vodra

Redefining ‘Peak Oil’ for the USA

Redefining ‘Peak Oil’ for the USA

Peak Oil’s impact on the United States will probably be more severe that what most other countries will feel.  This follows from a different way of thinking about the problem - availability vs. production. The most common definition of Peak Oil - the time when the production of petroleum (however defined) has reached its maximum and will stay steady and then decline in the future - focuses on the production end of

Peak Oil and the Current Economic Opportunity

By Richard E Vodra, CFP® The run-up to Peak Oil was a major factor in the current economic crisis, and the changes emerging from the crisis may help us