After Oil: The World Without Fossil Fuels.: From the first barrel to the last drop, this is the rise and fall of the oil age.

By Wayne J. Gombar

Out of Gas: The Age After Oil.

What happens when the wells run dry?
In less than two centuries, oil transformed the world. It fueled wars and highways, fed billions through industrial agriculture, powered the rise of empires, and shaped the very myths of modern life. But abundance has given way to fragility. Blackouts, shortages, climate refugees, and political upheaval reveal that the oil age is ending.

Out of Gas: The Age After Oil traces this arc across thirty chapters of history, politics, culture, and survival. From the early gushers of Pennsylvania and Texas to the fragile grids of today, from the petro-dollar to climate refugees, from car culture's decline to new myths of sun and wind, this book tells the story of a civilization built on petroleum-and what comes after.
Drawing on history, ethics, economics, and ecology, the book explores: How oil shaped modern geopolitics, culture, and daily life.Why scarcity, inequality, and climate change make transition inevitable.What futures emerge when civilizations face decline: collapse, resilience, or renewal.How culture, myth, and imagination guide societies beyond energy systems.Why the "last drop of oil" is both a warning and an opportunity.More than a chronicle of decline, this is a book about reckoning and possibility. It asks how humanity can endure in the face of limits, and whether the age after oil can be not only survivable but just.
The oil century is closing. The story of what comes next is already being written.

Out of Gas is both a history and a warning, both an elegy and a compass. It closes the chapter of oil while opening the question of what it means to live in its aftermath.

Author Bio - Wayne J. Gombar

Wayne J. Gombar is a writer and researcher specializing in security, resilience, and global transitions. With a background in homeland security and emergency management, and doctoral research in criminal justice, he brings a rare perspective that bridges policy, history, and lived experience.

Having worked on complex infrastructure and security projects in the Middle East and beyond, Gombar has seen firsthand how energy shapes politics, cultures, and lives. His academic training and professional work converge in Out of Gas: The Age After Oil, a sweeping account of the petroleum age and the uncertain futures beyond it.

Gombar writes with clarity and urgency, blending rigorous analysis with storytelling that resonates across disciplines. He lives in the United States, where he continues to research energy transitions, resilience planning, and the ethical questions of survival in an age of limits.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FP4YLG5C
• ISBN13: 9798262603305
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"