Eli wrote:After I posted I realized it was just a rant and I need to calm down and relax.
Eli wrote:I just heard the term Hubbert’s peak a few days ago over a couple of beers but since that time I have been reading all that I can about it on the internet.
halfin wrote:PO could be a real boon for the car companies. Sure, people won't want Hummers, but they'll be dying for hybrids and other high mileage vehicles. I'd bet that we will see the fastest replacement of the car fleet in history, if gas prices double or triple.
But I guess you would have to call me a doomer. I think it is a very real possibility that things could get very ugly very fast.
jato wrote:Of course a mad scientist COULD develop a "fountain of youth" techno-miracle, but the odds against it are astronomical.
halfin wrote:PO could be a real boon for the car companies. Sure, people won't want Hummers, but they'll be dying for hybrids and other high mileage vehicles. I'd bet that we will see the fastest replacement of the car fleet in history, if gas prices double or triple.
nocar wrote:Why do so many Americans think that it is the end of the world, or at least end of civilized society, if you have to live without driving cars?
Of course in Europe, most people have some hunch about how to live without a car waiting in the driveway, while Americans have been driving and owning cars for as long as almost all of those who now live can remember.
Just to inform those of you who think that life has to end when you can not longer have a car: Before 1890 noone had a car, and there is evidence of human civilization before that time. And "oil" mostly referred to olive oil, occasionally whale oil.
RockHind wrote:jato wrote:kind of like predicting your own death. You know for a fact that it will happen within a certain time frame, say within 110 years
You must be eatin real healthy
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