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Peak Oil

jwirr

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3. I did not say they can replace oil. I said that the oil (and other energy companies) could help us

Reply to 4dsc (Reply #2)

Wed Jan 11, 2012, 11:24 PM

Jan 2012

get more alternatives going so that when the oil is too expensive we will be able to change our lifestyle to adjust.

In the article they talk about doing this BEFORE we are forced to make the change will be much easier than waiting until it is damn near too late.

And I think we make a big mistake when we are just thinking about oil. Gas and coal are also finite. But we will not do anything about changing our lifestyle until we are forced. I have no faith in the idea that we actually think that any of this is going to happen. Like climate change is not happening either. Sarcasm.

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Peak oil can fuel a change for the better [View all] Javaman Jan 2012 OP

This is what I was asking in my question below. Instead of being the bad guys in this scene the jwirr Jan 2012 #1

Alternatives cannot replace oil 4dsc Jan 2012 #2

I did not say they can replace oil. I said that the oil (and other energy companies) could help us jwirr Jan 2012 #3

Conservation is the biggest oil field in the world 4dsc Jan 2012 #4

I was born in 1941 in a very rural area. We did not have electricity, farmed with horses, and my jwirr Jan 2012 #5