"The Long Emergency" (related to increasing gas prices)

[jread]

This is a great article on the consumption of oil and the ever-increasing gasoline prices. Gasoline does not seem to be getting cheaper and it's frightening to think about when it will no longer be affordable for people who commute long distances on a daily basis. The article is a bit long (which I know is basically repellant for most ATOT posters) but it's worth at least skimming if you're not going to read all of it.

America is in a special predicament due to a set of unfortunate choices we made as a society in the twentieth century. Perhaps the worst was to let our towns and cities rot away and to replace them with suburbia, which had the additional side effect of trashing a lot of the best farmland in America. Suburbia will come to be regarded as the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world. It has a tragic destiny. The psychology of previous investment suggests that we will defend our drive-in utopia long after it has become a terrible liability.

Full Article Here


I've been bitching about all of this for years....

 

[FoBoT]

they need to build more refineries

p.s. no way i am reading a article from Rolling stone on oil/environmental stuff

 

[rudder]

So I get a car that runs on biodiesel in 10 years. When its mroe economically feasible to mass produce that or ethanol. If not then so be it. I would rather ride public transportation than have my kids go to some of the crappy schools near where I work.