Will peak oil help clear out I-10?

Wednesday

They will call it the I-10 bayou.

TommyJefferson

That's one benefit of Peak Oil I'm looking forward to.

...wide open roads with less traffic.

Already I'm noticing a 300% increase in the number of motorcycles in my ride to work each morning over last year.

Motorcyles take up a lot less space than cars. The people who ride them are more cautious about running into things because doing so results in a trip to the emergency room, not just the auto body shop.
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Rabbit · Heavy Crude Joined: Aug 30, 2005 Posts: 116

I ride my motorcycle to work 4 to 5 days a week. I live just 6 miles from work. I now average $15 per week for my fuel costs for work + weekend errands. My wife works at home and when she does drive, it's in her Honda. Our average fuel costs are under $200 per month with both of us working.

I still own a large (older) suv (Toyota Land Cruiser) that only gets 15 mpg but I rarely use it anymore.

As a family we are now using less then 1/2 the gas we were a few years ago. I tell as many people as I can about why oil will never go back down in price.

TommyJefferson

I harbor an intense but totally irrational love of Land Cruisers. I had a 1973 FJ40 I wish I had never gotten rid of.

I want a situation like yours. I want to set up an FJ80 as the ultimate Bug-Out vehicle and leave it parked. At 13mpg, I would only use it when I need to pull a heavy trailer or escape a terrorist attack or natural disaster.

Ideally I'd have a Diesel Land Cruiser so I could run it on bacon grease if it came to that. I won't because biodiesel is taking off and 20 year-old Cruisers with 100K+ miles on them are selling for $11,000 in Ebay.
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Wednesday

I'd be interested to learn your Houston bug out plan Tommy.

If I can't convince my sister to leave, maybe I can convince my nephew to prepare a bug-out plan.

Maybe that's a new thread?

TommyJefferson

My uncle owns and resides upon 140 acres of good farmland in southern Oklahoma.

If a dirty bomb goes off in a shipping container in the Port of Houston, that's where I'm heading.

I live well north of Houston, so it's 396 miles to the farm. An FJ80 is big enough to haul my family and my parents there. If I add 1 auxilliary fuel tank, I can acheive a 500 mile range.

The PTO winch and 4x4 would give us a better chance of getting through backroads if the interstates and state highways are clogged.
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