You know you’ve hit peak oil when...............

by **vision-master** » Fri 28 Jul 2006, 08:23:48

When there’s half a tank left – but you can’t afford to top it off anymore.

by **truecougarblue** » Fri 28 Jul 2006, 11:10:26

Someone refers to you as a genius because you dumpster dive for waste vegetable oil (biodiesel).

by **rwwff** » Fri 28 Jul 2006, 11:52:15

When Billy Bob puts an electric trolling motor on his cigarette boat.

by **lateralus** » Fri 28 Jul 2006, 15:24:34

When half starved police officers start raiding your vegetable garden and you have to chase them off with a shotgun.

by **NEOPO** » Fri 28 Jul 2006, 17:05:19

When the vegetable garden is actually a lure made of silk ;-)

by **mekrob** » Fri 28 Jul 2006, 17:31:19

oil production goes down...F#%@ing $*@%! I suck at these.

by **Zardoz** » Fri 28 Jul 2006, 18:17:37

...you see newish Escalades, Denalis, Expeditions, and Suburbans up on concrete blocks on lawns all across America, with tall grass growing around them.

by **Andrew_S** » Fri 28 Jul 2006, 18:33:01

Obesity is seen as sexually attractive.

Whoah, look at the flab on that one!

by **duke3522** » Fri 28 Jul 2006, 20:16:48

When hot babes are willing to trade a night of dirty sex for a gallon of gas.

by **Tyler_JC** » Fri 28 Jul 2006, 21:51:38

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('duke3522', 'W')hen hot babes are willing to trade a night of dirty sex for a gallon of gas.

by **Vexed** » Thu 10 Aug 2006, 00:51:14

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Y')ou know you've hit Peak Oil when:

Everyone runs out of their houses to look at the airplane in the sky.

by **nemo** » Thu 10 Aug 2006, 08:48:10

...sailing vessels ply the seas for profit

...potatoes are growing where lawns used to be

...bicycle shops outnumber filling stations

...the Saudis admit they have depletion issues

...Lord Humongous and his leather-clad ass boys rule Australia

by **Doly** » Thu 10 Aug 2006, 09:43:22

Owning a car is seen as a status symbol.

Visiting your parents means a ride in a bus, then taking a ferry, then another ride in a bus.

You start seeing abandoned suburbia.

Fruit and veg that aren't local are considered exotic.

by **horsestoaster** » Thu 10 Aug 2006, 16:15:43

The "decorative" amish buggy with the pretty flowers in it suddenly disappears from your front yard while you were gone waiting in line to fill your SUV.Only clues are horsesh*t and hoofprints... :-D

by **horsestoaster** » Thu 10 Aug 2006, 16:18:11

Oh but good news! They DID leave the inedible flowers behind!

by **MountainHiker** » Thu 10 Aug 2006, 17:58:10

The 7/11's close down the gas pumps, but still see an increase in business due to higher sales of alcohol and cigarettes to a stressed out populace.

Tandem bicycles get to use the HOV lanes.

Living in the middle of nowhere starts applying to a lot more places.

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