Cheerful reading...

[denny]

http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

Well written piece about the forthcoming oil crisis, with a lot of widely varied references linked.

Comments

[dryad-wombat.livejournal.com]

I notice your shiny card in the icon. Do you feel unnerved about the oil crisis making it more pricy to run it?

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

While I dearly love my car (and more so in the past, my motorbikes), I'm quite aware that they're not environmentally sustainable toys. In my opinion private transport should be a luxury (the counterpoint to which is that public transport needs to be not just a viable alternative, but a better option). The government needs to put more of the money they extract from motorists into vastly improving our public transport infrastructure, imo.

I think on my wages it should probably be almost impossible to run the kind of car I currently do, unless it was my sole luxury and I spent almost all of my disposable income on it.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Although more critical than the issue of private vs public transport are issues such as sustainable development - putting employment sectors next to housing sectors, decentralising industry (and retail) to remove the need for commuting - encouraging teleworking, etc etc.

[grandwazooo.livejournal.com]

...on the money I earn it IS impossible to run the car you do - but it's insurance, not fuel thats the problem.

...I dont have the facts so I cant really question the sites sources (and I cant be bothered either) - but of the 2 "bell curve" graphs, one shows total production in thousand barrels per day the other shows almost an identical graph "per capita" - but the text(rightly) states that population should double over the 1980-2020 period... - which makes me question the accuracy of (at least) one of the 2 graphs... however, I am shti at maths, so it is bound to be me that has the wrong end of the stick. - I still cant see how one graph plotted against total poduction could look the same as one plotted barrels per head, when the per head figure is also increasing nearly exponentialy..


The other problem facing the world economy is the physical speedlimit of silicon. Moores law predicts processor speed to double every 18months - and a significant chunk of the world economy is driven by this constant increase in processor speed. But there is a physical limit to the capabilities of silicon - and eventualy technological advances will catch up with this limit, causing a sudden halt in electronic growth and yet another potential global economic crash...

in short, I am not gonna worry and will get a V8 as soon as I can afford the TPF+T!! ... at least then I can life the mad max lifestyle after the fall of society.