Originally Posted by
Platy
This forum has never seen an actual in-depth discussion of peak oil, which would get into the technical details of horizontal drilling, fractional flow in permeable reservoirs, enhanced oil recovery, creaming curves, energy balances in refineries, energy returned on energy invested, analysis of satellite photos of foreign oil fields, contango/backwardation in commodity futures, and so forth. As for occasional casual references to peak oil as a possible driver of current events, you'll get that by watching the financial news channels or reading the Wall Street Journal.
That's true, but that's what
http://www.theoildrum.com is for.
I guess my feeling in all of this is that when you start to talk about living car free, it is only natural to start to consider the reasons why our society is set up in such a way that living car free is a big deal. If it wasn't a big deal, then lots more people would be doing it, and it would be an ordinary lifestyle choice like the question of whether to get a cat or a dog.
And then of course the question of the degree to which the status quo will be possible in the future. I suppose that's what the dig about peak oil was all about, and I imagine that this sort of discussion makes some people uncomfortable. To me it is highly relevant - if you don't want to read about it, skip those threads.