Peak Oil - Last Oil Shock - (part 2 of 4)

[OUTOFGAS88]

you ever heard of permafrost well this is permafuckl.

[WolYou]

We don't need cars anyway. Once the profit oriented big corporations are gone bankcrupt, small bisunesses will evolve everywhere, giving people a chance to find a job max. 15 walking minutes away. The current down-town/suburbs dogma is absurd and depends entirely on transportation technology. Nobody is willing to walk 2 hours to the office. Big companies are building in a centralized way. Thats the problem. De-centralized infrastructure makes technical supported transportation obsolete.

[WolYou]

Muscle power is the most effective use of energy.

[cubeprisioner8]

Electronic cars are bad because we can't make a battery that will last long enough. Where ever there is a road we could build lines for Public Rapid Transit. Take the wheel out of human hands and eliminate our need for oil by 90%.. Reduce global warming. No more car insurance. No DWI's. No human error accidents. Imagine the critters that would be saved.. We need a politician to put PRT on the table. Revolutionize the transit system.

[KARStarla]

I agree, even to charge the vehicle takes too long (up to 24 hours) I think the air car is definately more of a transitional vehicle, not buy buying new vehicles (thus using more oil) but converting existing vehicles. The air car uses electricity to compress the air yet it takes only a few minutes plus you get 160 miles MORE out of an air car. To go in that direction in a mass scale would put the gears in reverse concerning the consumption increase, like putting on the breaks

[qpwnsall]

scary stuff...i think i will go ahead and move to florida, power my home with solar panels, and drive an electric motorcycle.

[KARStarla]

Think hurricanes in relation to solar panels in florida. Heck Im in the country in the middle of nowhere myself, I have no water source by me and I can only get to a 700 foot well of water with electric, I priced solar to get it up but its over $10,000 and $6000 for solar hot water and I certainly cant get that kind of money up and I'm not even cretain now adays if banks will lend it out against mortgages.

Even if you can if the economy collaspses you cant even pay for it and lose it anyway

[dusteroo]

over $4 now !

possibly to triple !

[Mechman064]

I saw this mess coming 4 or 5 years ago. That gave me time to move my job into mass transit and arrange to live bicycle distance from work. I've tried to warn friends, coworkers and family for a long time now and only in the last few moths has anyone started to listen.

Even after warning people and doing what I can to prepare for the last 8 months, it's still a shock to see it really starting to happen. I'm like "Wow! This is really happening!" And for the first time I actually felt real fear!

[OperationCrossroad]

I hear ya...I stopped trying to explain Peak Oil to people about 2 years ago. I got sick of banging against a wall of denial. At one point it just hit me: it's not my job to educate! Putting the information on YouTube is as far as I'm willing to go now. Today, I mind my own business and try to prepare for the storm coming our way. It's like being a passenger in a plane that's about to crash; you can sense the danger but there's not a whole lot you can do really.

[Mechman064]

I haven't totally given up on neighbors or coworkers yet though. I've brought a few of them over to our side recently. Oddly, my fellow mechanics are easier to inform. Mechanics tend to have logical personalities. I've got 3 close neighbors on my side now too. We can watch each other's condos while we're away and so on.

I'm working to adapt to the worsening conditions, biking to work and I have an 8hp 70mpg scooter on the way. Soon my car will stay parked most of the time. Check out my videos.

[KARStarla]

I been preparing as well I still find no one listening the American media is not saying squat about this to get folks to put their wheels in reverse. I already know I cannot get water to us, I'm so rural I could not possibly walk, ride a bike (or even a horse) to get anywhere. I'm staring at my situation thinking "I'm so screwed" and I have no debts save a small mortgage I havent ever over extended myself and I cannot move fast enough, I can only see whats left undone as I wait for the hammer

[Mechman064]

I hope you're shopping for rain barrels. The time to pick them up is now, while they're cheap. In time they will start getting hard to get. I think they have these big plastic or canvas bag things as well that can hold a LOT of water. Hook them up to your rain gutters and you'll have water that you can drink and cook with with only minimal filtration needed. In fact, I think I'm going to start looking for some of those big bag style tanks as well. That's something I can store in my condo.

[KARStarla]

Hello again Mechman, yes I have considered these, whats kool if you get those bags big enough they can be a great waterbed too :P Kidding, how on earth do you move that thing?

Northern tool has them for under $50 but tanks are pricy, I'm changing my mind to rubbermaid stackable trashcans, beggers cant be chosers. I honestly want to ditch my mortgage and build the same house I saw on youtube called "the woman with the 84 square foot home" did you see that? lol Its killer!

[776281]

T Boone Pickens is investing in wind farms

[KARStarla]

Isnt he also the one locking onto water aquifers as well?

[776281]

Don't know if Boone Pickens is locking up aquifers as well. But it would make sense, during the medieval warm period that was supposedly so beneficial there was a massive drought through the Texas, Mid West, Mexico area. Ground water will become increasingly valuable.

[KARStarla]

You can tell they got nothing left to profit on but water after peak oil, talk about desparate... I'm surprised they wont charge for the air we breathe

[776281]

When he works out how to, then we will pay.

[Boomer1949]

Other countries seem to be way ahead of the game. Brazil with ethanol. France with the Air Car. And I'm not sure what country the H2O car comes from. America will have to change it's way of getting around. More mass transit will be used where it's available. More bike riding when it's practical. Less oil based products and most of all, less war.

[UnderseaCaveman]

Nope, we are not at "Pain Threshold" yet....people are only bitching and moaning....in couple years, yes, it will be pain and panic!

[OperationCrossroad]

I agree. I was watching a James Kunstler in an interview this morning (again, I'm sure you know the guy and just how right he's been about everything so far). He expects the pain to become severe within 36 months and simply unbearable in less than 5 years.

[valhala56]

I think the pain becoming severe in 36 months is being optimistic. As soon as there are inflationary food prices and or shortages, hoarding, violence will come out. I see something similar to "Road Rage" what I call "Gas station Rage" Where people stressed to the breaking point fall into a dark pit of violence. People will not believe it is happening.

[UnderseaCaveman]

Great show, thanks for putting up!