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Big Trouble

Nothing sharpens your focus like having your back against the wall while facing a powerful foe.

That's where we, as a society, are right now. Most of us just don't recognize it.

We are in a whole lot of trouble. The age of fossil fuel will end in our children's lifetime. If we fail to develop alternative sources of energy, they may not have the opportunity to grow grey hair.

For your children's sake, please invest as much time as you can afford reading the archives of some great sites like...

theoildrum.com
aspo-usa.com
energybulletin.net
odac-info.org
peakoil.com
lifeaftertheoilcrash.net

I have links to these sites and more at peakera.blogspot.com

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Permalink Reply by Peak Dad on July 8, 2008 at 10:02am
P.S. I'm not an alarmist... just happen to notice alarm bells ringing everywhere.
Permalink Reply by Peak Oil Mom on July 8, 2008 at 11:45am
I think we reached the peak last year, no doubt it is here. I guess we've passed Complacency and are now entering Panic.
Permalink Reply by Mark Werner on July 9, 2008 at 12:23pm
Fossil fuels and especially oil are causing cancer and respiratory disease. If for no other reason we should be on a path to clean energy sources. Wind and solar are endless clean energy sources. Why are we not united in a Manhattan style project to stop the madness I will never understand? Anyone who is against clean energy should stand in their garage with the car running for one hour a day for the next year and let us know how their doing , if they are alive !!
Permalink Reply by RWC1972 on July 9, 2008 at 12:24pm
People like you are part of the problem, not the solution.

Constructive posting (if possible) only please.
Permalink Reply by Beth Locklear on July 9, 2008 at 12:57pm
I took a geology class in college and fell in love with the miracle of Earth. Of course fossil fuels have to run out eventually, especially with China falling in love with cars and jumping on the oil bandwagon. Americans are jaded and in checkmate with the oil issue but to the Chinese it is just beginning. That dissapoints me. Not everyone is going that direction. My 18 year old daughter just went to Japan on a pleasure trip and came back very impressed at how many bicycles people use on a daily basis. She said even delivery trucks were tiny. People hung their clothes out to dry even in the city. We can learn from them. I think/hope our pendulum is swinging back to the good old days before our oil addiction. (I walked to school for 9 out of 12 years! Nowadays the kids in my neighborhood get bussed to schoools within walking distance!) The good news is that I can see here in the US people are turning to motorcycles and scooters. Here in my suburb of Austin we have 1 out of the 2 Smart Car dealerships that exist in Texas so I am starting to see Smart Cars out and about every time I go run errands. A microchip manufacturer here in Austin has a series of solar panels in front of their building and that excites me. They are no longer seen as "eyesores". Alternative energy is taking off! But it will take a paradigm shift in our attitudes....
Permalink Reply by Peak Dad on July 11, 2008 at 7:41am
Don't worry... the bicycles will be coming back soon. Conservation is about to be rapidly forced upon us.
Permalink Reply by david burgdorff on July 11, 2008 at 7:58am
I don't think we're anywhere near peak oil. More oil will be produced each year as long as we're able to pay more for it. There's lots of oil, it just gets more expensive to produce. The most expensive oil being produced in the world right now costs $50/barrel. There is no way that $140/barrel can be sustained in the long run.

Peak oil will come either when we cannot afford to pay more or we have an alternative. Converting as many cars as possible to natural gas will make peak oil happen.
Permalink Reply by Matthew Baker on July 27, 2008 at 9:43pm
I think you need to do more research.
Permalink Reply by Natalie McConnell on July 11, 2008 at 8:03am
Isn't this a little overdramatic? Scaring people into complying may be effective to garner interest, but this isn't Armageddon. It's a difficult dilemma. We cannot just think on a national scale, but on a global scale. This is a global market, not just a domestic one. What we do in this nation affects other countries.
Permalink Reply by Peak Dad on July 11, 2008 at 8:05am
With all due respect, you are wrong.

We have heard for years that we would leave oil before it leaves us. It is now clear to anyone who has made a serious study of the issue - T. Boone included - that we have reached peak oil now. We are on a 4-year plateau that began in 2004, and the statistical evidence of a soon-coming rapid fall-off in production is pretty darned air-tight.

Here is a link to video of TBP saying just that.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lweCK8spBX8
Permalink Reply by Peak Dad on July 11, 2008 at 8:08am
If a fire broke out in your building, would you pull the fire alarm?

We are at that kind of serious here.
Permalink Reply by Natalie McConnell on July 11, 2008 at 8:13am
Wind power may be and effective option, unfortunately, there are two public sides to this. The conflict is those who won't accept cultural changes and those who do want cultural changes. Descriptions of large structures that will blot the natural landscape will be a difficult sell. Small towns will be affected both in good ways (by creating jobs) and in bad ways (losing tourism income, as well as losing increased value of homes due to these structures being on or even nearby the land where the home is located). Home values will decrease.

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