Rather than listen to each of us spruik about complex matters we know so little about, try getting your head around some of the main issues.
One book which is very relevant to all of us - the future of cars, and transport in general - does a great analysis of the oil industry:
ZOOM by two correspondents for
The Economist (2007)
Iain Carson & Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran
And that led me to a great talk by a US guru, Amory Lovins, who founded the Rocky Mountains Institute. He gives a brief intro to a book he has written called "Winning the Oil Endgame", which is available as a free download(I haven't read that yet). See the 20 min talk on the
TED: Ideas worth spreading website:
Amory Lovins on winning the oil endgame | Video on TED.com
Fill in a little bit of time on that next long-haul!
And interestingly, the economic, political, and environmental arguments were all made more than a year ago when fuel was well under $100!
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