After reading James Howard Kunstler's The Long Emergency on vacation this past summer I became acquainted with the concept of Peak Oil. With summer gas prices hovering around $3.00 a gallon, the concepts in the book regarding a potential looming crisis, seemed to ring true. Just a few short months later gas prices are closer to $2.00 a gallon and the sort of crisis predicted in Kunstler's book seems very far off. However, the Washington Post's Car Columnist Warren Brown, warns us in a brilliant column yesterday (Through Rose Garden Glasses, Oct. 15, 2006), that our short term memory "makes us ill-prepared to deal with a looming energy crisis caused by a rapidly growing global demand for oil." Brown's column is a must read for everyone.
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