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Re: Peak oil - 4 Corners ABC TV Monday 10/7/06
Tony, Bezdek went straight to the most important point - liquid fuel for transport. It is the lynchpin for the drive-by eutopia that Western Society has become. Ironically, that may provide most of your protection.
Take a look at the local Mall where people sit in their little tin boxes driving around trying to find a parking spot that is close to the entrance. Most of them wouldn't dream of walking any significant distance, and to them a kilometer is a significant distance. So, how many people would be willing to walk 20 kilometers out of town (and then have to walk back to their residence)?
I disagree with you on the coal reserves. The latest figures show Peak Coal in about 15 years. The mining has been done on the easy stuff, to get at the more difficult reserves it will take, you guessed it, energy.
When the fuel crisis begins to hit hard, the Government only has one plan - rationing. I looked and nobody on this forum is on the Government's list to get fuel [trust me, I used to be a lawyer
]. You want fuel, then be prepared to make your own.
As Bezdek emphasized, the transport sector is vulnerable. We depend on road transport for just about everything. If the transport sector goes down (and it will eventually), then the whole system collapses. This is not doom and gloom, this is reality.
Perhaps after all the Government (I still hate capitalising that despictable word) inquiries into Peak Oil and Bezdek's recent address, those useless eaters in Canberra might be amenable to having a re-look at the objectives of the BEER campaign. After all, it they think that homemade biodiesel from used cooking oil is a joke, then maybe they could be gracious enough to get the hell out of our way. If they can't do anything constructive, then they could at least not impede those that can do something.
Tony, Bezdek went straight to the most important point - liquid fuel for transport. It is the lynchpin for the drive-by eutopia that Western Society has become. Ironically, that may provide most of your protection.
Take a look at the local Mall where people sit in their little tin boxes driving around trying to find a parking spot that is close to the entrance. Most of them wouldn't dream of walking any significant distance, and to them a kilometer is a significant distance. So, how many people would be willing to walk 20 kilometers out of town (and then have to walk back to their residence)?
I disagree with you on the coal reserves. The latest figures show Peak Coal in about 15 years. The mining has been done on the easy stuff, to get at the more difficult reserves it will take, you guessed it, energy.
When the fuel crisis begins to hit hard, the Government only has one plan - rationing. I looked and nobody on this forum is on the Government's list to get fuel [trust me, I used to be a lawyer
]. You want fuel, then be prepared to make your own. As Bezdek emphasized, the transport sector is vulnerable. We depend on road transport for just about everything. If the transport sector goes down (and it will eventually), then the whole system collapses. This is not doom and gloom, this is reality.
Perhaps after all the Government (I still hate capitalising that despictable word) inquiries into Peak Oil and Bezdek's recent address, those useless eaters in Canberra might be amenable to having a re-look at the objectives of the BEER campaign. After all, it they think that homemade biodiesel from used cooking oil is a joke, then maybe they could be gracious enough to get the hell out of our way. If they can't do anything constructive, then they could at least not impede those that can do something.
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