This is a great article on what we might expect when oil output peaks, or when we run out of oil. This is my favorite quote:
American consumer/voters first need to stop blaming “greedy” oil companies, OPEC, environmentalists, China, gasoline retailers, fanciful conspiracy theories about suppressed oil production, etc.
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Either way, wouldn't it be better to assume the worst in this case and adopt a strategy of conservation and alternative fuel solutions?
Or am I just whistling Dixie?
No, you and the article both indicate that we need to start conserving.
I also say we need to start buying more hybrids.
Here's a thought: stop selling all non-hybrid SUVs, vans, and mini-vans. Just ban them.
And who is the target market for an H3? I mean, all the discomfort and gass guzzling ability of large military transports but tinier than Trackers?
Apparently that would be my co-worker, Brooke. She is the proud new owner of an H3, just as absurd as the first version.
Kevin, what happened to your spelling? Gass?
Anyhow, are you going to tell Allison's friend, or your mom for that matter, not to drive their SUVs?
That's the problem and one of the tenets of that article. As long as "conservation" is a bad word, change will not occur. And one day someone will park their Ford Extinction next to a Toyota Armada and you'll wonder why they called that tiny thing an "armada"
My spelling has always sucked, and my typing is worse than my spelling.
Yes, I'll gladly tell my mother and whoever else that their SUVs are ridiculous wastes, but I don't think I'd need to. With the average lifespan of a new car being 10-15 years (ironically, the older cars last longer according to studies I've seen), the gass guzzling SUVs of the late-1990s through the present day will be gone long before I retire at 65 (like I'll live that long). That is, if we stopped making new ones today. Imagine what a statement that would make for future generations. of course, you'll have to imagine it because it will never happen.
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