[ExI] Doomsday Oil Price: (was RIP: Peak Oil)

[spike]

>... On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes
...

> The point is how fast can the oil companies come up with an affordable
synfuel that can work in the cars that are on the road RIGHT NOW? 

But it isn't really about cars.  Alternatives there are fairly easy: way
smaller lighter slower cars, and failing that, bicycles and scooters.  But
it isn't really all about cars, or even semi-trucks that carry food from the
agricultural areas to the population centers, for we can retrofit and slow
these and save a lot of fuel.  The transition to renewable energy is really
about fertilizer and powering farm equipment.  That one isn't getting any
easier, and currently isn't really even being improved.  Everything else has
technologically easy (even if painful) solutions.

spike