The Hirsch report on Peak oil

[whiskeytown]

this has concerned me greatly, esp. ever since the price of gas doubled -

There are a couple options - first is oil/shale extraction - Oil companies are looking to this - it's about $60 bucks a barrel unless they can improve the efficency, but we're damn close to that now anyways - after a point, certain technologies that no one is using because of expenses become cost-effective.

my only concern isn't that losers will have to give up SUV's, but that so much of our food production/transportation is dependant on oil still - solar/fuel cell cars are one thing - a combine is another - [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

but yes, esp. in the cities, public transportation is going to become more important - and if I lived in the country, I'd start taking steps to isolate myself from the grid/infrastructure as much as possible -

RB