Awaiting the oil drought

We know what Aspen is like in drought years. The snowpack thins. The skiing sucks. The economy suffers. We pull our purse strings tight and hope for a better season next year.

The Canary Initiative hopes to address the long-term viability of skiing in the Central Rockies by weighing the impacts of global warming. The thinking goes that it’s better to know the demons you face than to blithely ignore them.

Oil is a different bag. We currently ignore a pending oil drought that could make our climate-based droughts seem quaint. Snowpack and ski conditions will be the least of our worries when the energy economy hits the skids.
The Aspen Times