In Reply to: Except 200 million Americans without access to mass transit will be SOL. nt posted by oscar on June 6, 2007 at 09:16:25:
I don't worry too much about America. There is so much discretionary consumption in your economy that adjustments, though painful, will at least be possible. Other places in the world may not be so lucky.
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- A few billion global citizens may be SOL. - GliderGuider 06/6/0709:22:27 06/6/07 (8)
- Factor in the disproportionate amount of automobile use in the USA. - oscar 10:47:24 06/6/07 (6)
- Culture shock won't kill you, food shortages will. - GliderGuider 11:36:28 06/6/07 (5)
- I light a cigarette post-peak, GG. - Jim Pearce 11:49:50 06/6/07 (0)
- I expect Resource wars will accomplish a lot of the "necessary culling". - oscar 11:43:38 06/6/07 (3)
- They may not be enough. - GliderGuider 12:26:07 06/6/07 (0)
- The serious resource wars will be fought over water oscar. - Jim Pearce 12:03:06 06/6/07 (0)
- A good argument for - piece-it pete 12:01:37 06/6/07 (0)
- Agreed. - piece-it pete 10:25:51 06/6/07 (0)