Up, up it goes…
Well, I have to admit that the news about oil prices surging today makes me uneasy. I’ve known about peak oil for a while now, and I do what I can to minimise my car use. But I don’t feel like there’s anything else I can do.
I can’t afford a hybrid car, as much as I’d like one. I live in hope that within the next decade the technology that has been suppressed for so long will finally come out and we most resourceful of species will create a viable solution to our current crisis.
Now, I have to admit that I don’t fully understand how the world economy works, and I believe that the stock market is just legalised gambling in action - as it deals with perceptions of value and supply and demand, rather than any real value - but this ignorance is also starting to worry me. So much of our lives are now wrapped up in this volatile system, and I want out!
It just gives me more impetus to get out of the city, grow my own food, learn how to make the things I need so that I can free myself as far as possible from entanglement from this web.
June 07 2008 07:00 pm | Oil and petrol
June 10th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Grrr the Peak Oil crisis has been predicted for years and we could have had solar powered electric cars in Oz already, in fact we almost did except the previous Federal Govt knocked the Reva electric car on the head!
The re-use of the fish and chip oil is a good stand-by until a fully electric car is available, or, if they are too pricey, a solar charged electric scooter/bicycle maybe?
June 10th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Hi Jayne, thanks for the insight - I’ll have to look up the Reva! I have considered getting a scooter - though my little car is very fuel efficient and it’s a long way to work for me at the moment (hopefully only for a little while longer). But I’m happy to see many city people taking them up with gusto!