The Oil Drum: Why We Drive

I think most of us on this site would agree that figuring out what to do about this terrible trio:

1. The need to accomodate peaking or plateauing of global oil supply.

2. Carbon emissions contributing to global warming

3. Dependence on oil from politically unstable, especially Middle Eastern, sources

is our major generational challenge.

Although reasonable people can differ over the timing and shape of the oil peak (#1), only fairly unreasonable people now believe that we can continue to increase our CO2 emissions without severe consequences in the future (#2). And almost everybody agrees that we have a serious near-term problem with #3, since so much of global oil supply comes from parts of the world at risk of “regional conflagration”, to use our new Secretary of Defense’s term.

So what to do?

Much more after the jump to The Oil Drum.