[PeakingAroundtheCorner]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')Life without transport by oil is closer than we think

Minivans, global air travel and the transport of goods by diesel truck soon will become the stuff of yesterday as the world adapts to depleting oil reserves.

The planet, posits a new book by two Canadian academics, is on the cusp of a revolution in transportation that will steer people away from petroleum-fuelled vehicles and into ones that are either battery-powered or connected to electrical grids.

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In adapting to peak oil, the way we move ourselves and domestic and international freight will change as dramatically as when the horse and buggy gave way to the car.

Vehicles gradually will be replaced by Personal Rapid Transports -- one- to six-person cars, linked to overhead power grids, that move along streets in designated guideways. More LRTs and subway systems will be needed. Air travel will again become a preserve of the rich. Railways will be reconfigured to run on electricity.

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[Novus]

Sounds like more unworkable ideas proposed by the same people who have been talking about this same stuff of 50 years. Is too hard to envision a simple world without transport in which our personal horizons shrink to no farther than we can walk or bike in a day.

[steam_cannon]

How the product is advertised

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_rapid_transit

How the product will be delivered

http://www.discoverlivesteam.com/magazine/83.html

When the project is scrapped, what will be put in it's place...

[steam_cannon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PeakingAroundtheCorner', 'S')ounds as if they're passing off science fiction as non-fiction.