How are you getting your family and community ready for Peak Oil?

Question

Peak Oil occurs when the world's oil supply reaches its half-way point and then goes into permenant decline. Less and less oil will affect how we grow our food, get around, what kind of job we have, how we heat our homes and cook our food, how we generate electricity and ensure our drinking water supply. Peak Oil has already occured or will likely occur within the next 4 years. The link below gives a balanced overview:

http://www.energybulletin.net/primer.php

Answer 1

I grew up on a farm. I would be perfectly happy to give all the chaos up to conserve and live a quieter life.

Answer 2

I'm not sure this qualifies as "getting ready for Peak Oil", but I catch a ride to work with someone else. I even tried to pay him, but he goes right past my place anyway, so won't take any $. I just like the idea of not wasting gas, when we're both going the same direction, you know?

When I do drive my car for errands, groceries, etc, I usually take another person w/ me, so they don't have to drive. Passing on the favor, I guess.

I also have recycled cans, bottle, newspapers since the 70's. It's nice there are bins at the grocery stores for this now. It was a real pain cleaning, storing all that stuff before.

I have a 1999 car that gets 40mpg. I kind of bought it to save money, but that indirectly saves oil, I guess. I try to keep my apartment as cool in the winter as possible. Although, my place is all electric and the elec. company here is coal, so I guess that's not really helping the oil thing.

I really thought in 7 years, there would be vehicles that would get MUCH better gas mileage than 40 mpg! Even the hybrids aren't getting much better mpg! And those are soooooooo expensive. (I bought my manual transmission car in 1999 brand new, off the lot for $8,000.) Someone needs to make a sub-compact hybrid that can also run on E-85. I might be willing to go back in debt w/ car payments if it would get over 100 mpg.

Answer 3

Thanks for the information; it's nice to add to what I already know about the absurd overconsumption of resources.

I am preparing for this, although not specifically (I see this as part of a larger and much more important issue of protecting the environment), by riding my bicycle or walking almost everywhere that I can (and taking my city's "green bus" when I can't), reducing my use of both utilities and goods, and recycling. They all do have some effect on oil consumption.

Answer 4

I have a gut feeling, based on oil industry experience, that the alarmists (of the school the 'end is nigh') are at work here and that peak oil won't be reached for at least ten years and that alternatives - bio fuel, electric and hydrogen power for vehicles will be beginning to kick in as well as a start in oil from coal, shale oil and CO2 sequestration. Oil companies have a habit of trying to prove oil that they can start to recover in the next five years or so and don't like prove reserves just for the sake of it as that is expensive.

Answer 5

I don't know how up and down it will go but here is a report just released today: By Ciara Linnane
Last Update: 10:40 AM ET Oct 25, 2006

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. crude supplies fell by 3.3 million barrels in the week ended Oct. 20, the Department of Energy said Wednesday. Motor gasoline supplies fell by 2.8 million barrels and distillate fuel supplies fell by 1.4 million barrels. Separate data from the American Petroleum Institute showed crude supplies down by 3.7 million barrels, gasoline supplies down by 2.3 million barrels and distillates down by 588,000 barrels. Analysts were expecting distillate supplies to fall, but were predicting gains for both crude and gasoline. Futures prices rallied with crude for December delivery up 94 cents at $60.29 a barrel after the data were released. Gasoline futures rose 3.9 cents to $1.5775 a gallon and heating oil added 3.58 cents to $1.73 a gallon.

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Answer 6

Will that be before the Icecaps melt completely?
Man should have made a replacement for oil along
time ago.