The Day After Peak Oil

Creative Loafing – You haven’t heard a lot in the mainstream press about something called “peak oil.” The Atlanta Daily Newspaper of Declining Circulation — whose marketing and news orthodoxy is that sprawl is splendid — has mentioned the term only four times. Ever. Those items include one letter and, oh, one column from the pro-sprawl, pro-more-roads Georgia Public Policy Foundation. That column labels peak oil as a “belief” that’s foisted on the public by “snake oil” salesmen.

“That’s really stupid,” says Richard Heinberg, author of two books on peak oil, and a guy who practices what he preaches. He’s converted his California suburban home into a mini-farm where he raises food on once-manicured lawns. Through solar panels, he has cut his energy bill by 80 percent.

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