Reply #1: Welcome to Peak Oil [View All]

[MadHound]

We are quickly running out of time in which to stave off the worst of the effects of the coming oil shortage. With an oil man in the White House, and pro-oil goons in Congress, there is going to be no significant national program to smoothly transcition our economy off of oil. They are going to run this country right off the cliff, making obscene amounts of money while doing so, and banking that their personal fortunes will protect them from the worst effects of the oil shortage. But they will leave the common citizen to fend for themselves once the oil supply runs out. Interesting to note is that on both the Bush and Cheney ranch/rural retreats there are state of the art alternative energy generation systems installed and in place.

Thus it is going to be up to each of us to start preparing for the worst now. If you have the money and the house/land, start installing wood furnaces, thin film photovolteic solar panels, and wind turbines. Take out a home equity loan if you have to, or if you're buying a house, include the price of these upgrades in your mortage. If you can't do this, buy a hybrid car, or better yet a diesel vehicle in order that you can run you car on biodiesel(which is quite easy and cheap to make for yourself).

Start these preparations now, for that proverbial cliff edge is looming on the horizon, and we'll be going over it sooner than you think.