Interesting, thanks. A bit off topic but it's nice to see the peak oil folks getting some design skills. In the past all their stuff looked like paranoid ravings, time cube stuff. It's a shame, but people do judge by appearances more than you'd think.
My opinion in short: the increase in energy prices in general and especially of vehicle fuel prices which has just gotten underway will present many challenges. We need to be clever about managing the transition, but in the end an increase in energy prices is a good thing, not a bad thing. What that will do to the landscape of the newer auto-dependent suburbs remains a big question (and to the finances of people who own pieces of it), but the bigger risk is climate change. It is only a slight exagerration to say that ten dollar a gallon gasoline cannot come too soon. My big concern is that some sort of gasoline rationing or preferential pricing will prove necessary in the US and similar countries, because demand from rich people is not price sensitive, but the entire infrastructure depends on the mobility of poor people. That will be a nasty political tangle to say the least. I don't think society will actually crash from another tripling of prices of liquid fuel as Kunstler suggests. At least, it won't without really spectacular screwups from the politicians, but these days it must be admitted that this is a real possibility. mt On 6/12/07, Jim Torson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Oil Drum website has an interesting Oil Quiz: > > http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2636 > > > You might find it more convenient to download this as a PDF file: > > <http://www.theoildrum.com/files/OilQuiz.pdf>http://www.theoildrum.com/files/OilQuiz.pdf > > > Jim > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
