Steve Andrews is a co-founder of ASPO-USA (the Association for the Study of Peak Oil—US affiliate). ASPO-USA is a non-partisan, non-profit research and public education initiative organized to address the USA's peak oil and natural gas energy challenges. While working as an energy writer and consultant since 1980, Steve followed the slowly emerging peak oil story and began speaking out about this visible, long-term problem in public forums during the late 1980s, then helped establish ASPO-USA in 2005.