Imagine a World Without Oil

It's time to start preparing for the day oil is to0 scarce to be used to haul our foodstuffs hundreds or thousands of miles to our neighborhood store. What will we eat then?

When gasoline is too expensive for us to drive 10-80 miles to work each day, how will we earn our living?

Will your peaceful city neighborhood and your backyard vegetable garden be safe when hungry people are looking desperately for something to eat? Can you grow enough to feed your family year-round where you live? And do you have a well that doesn't require electricity?

The time has come for intelligent people to start making plans for a time in the near future when our society, which runs on cheap oil, begins to fall apart.

If you read between the lines of your daily news, you'll see what I'm talking about. Look up "peak oil" on Google and read what scientists, geologists, and serious thinkers are predicting. There is no doubt that it will happen; the only debate is over "How soon?"

All it would take would be a major terrorist attack on any major oil-producing nation, say with a dirty nuclear weapon, and you will see prices of oil and natural gas go through the roof. Combine the likelihood of terrorism with the growing appetite for oil of China, India, and other industrializing nations and you have a good chance that supplies will be grabbed up and/or fought over by nations desperate to keep their society running. Will it be 3 years or 10 before things get really ugly in the cities?

This is not news, but I'm starting to sense the urgency to prepare for a scaled-down economy that's based on serving real human needs like food, shelter, and cooperation. A local economy in a rural environment that is safe from marauding thugs.

Interestingly, this change to a world without oil is going to be a good thing. Those who see it coming can avoid the pain of going "cold turkey" when the supply is shut off. Some will get stronger and healthier by getting off the couch and growing their own food, instead of driving to the store. Some will commute by bike rather than Hummer. Others will starve, steal, and impotently scream for the government to DO SOMETHING! (Think Katrina!)

Will you join the Captain's dinner party on the Titanic and live it up for a little longer? Or will you prepare now to save your loved ones from the chaotic times ahead? (Think we can stop another 9/11?)

From what I'm reading on www.PeakOil.org and other well-documented peak oil sites , life will be better when the frantic oil-dependent people have died off, leaving the meek to inherit the earth.