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Gold/Mining/Energy : PEAK OIL - The New Y2K or The Beginning of the Real End?
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To: gg cox who wrote (917)8/28/2005 12:11:08 AM
From: Bill on the Hill   of 1183
 
The key to finding our energy independent future is in decentralization. Locally produced fuels consumed locally. It is an entirely different paradigm than we currently use. One of the best examples of our inefficiency is in bottled water that is transported 1500 miles to be consumed where water is clean and abundant. Our consumption habits have been hijacked and we are being held hostage by our own ignorance and laziness.

To continue this inefficient distribution channel is pure folly. To hope for change will never bring it about. It will take a near cataclysm for us to be shocked into change.

We are so far removed from balance with our system that entire infrastructures will have to be shifted into remaking our society. It remains to be seen as to whether we have the determination or awareness to change.

I personally have little faith in our citizens. We have become lazy, selfish and used to the easy life. Give us 6 months without easily available fuel and you will see a much different lifestyle emerge. We had better go and ask our grandparents how their parents were able to live daily life before that asset is gone.

This is not to say no hope exists. Just a critique of society as a whole. Bright spots already exist. We need to find them and work on them for a solution to our energy needs.

We certainly know the problem. Lets find the answers to them.

Solar, Wind, Biofuels, Biomass, Hydrogen, utilization of waste, Conservation

just a few.
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