[eastbay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '
')I know. It is hard for a cornie to believe we are running out of things.

[technet]

i like pstarr's comments, there are times when things are abundant and times when things are tight....... its common sense and oil has had its day........

its hard to look back in histroy and apply it to the present day

just one point i think is worth keeping in mind though

it doesnt have to be the absolute end of everything

humans throughout histroy have been obsessed with the absolute demise of humanity, and this is just a way of not actually confronting their own individual mortality, rather than any real reality that the entire planet will come to an end in fire and brimstone.....

some chaos, some up and down, but once it really gets messy new things will come through and it will be surprising to those looking back how easily oil was finally replaced when it came to the crunch.

how easily was the type writer, horse and cart, oil lamp, steam engine etc etc etc replaced ?

[davep]

That's all well and good pstarr, just stop lumping me in with the cornucopians!

[yesplease]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'H')ow can we replace petroleum when alternatives are always more expensive?

[yesplease]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'I')t seems to me though, if the electric car really had "popular demand" of the kind you imply, we would see many more homemade conversions and more shops set up for doing electric conversions. But the electric car subset of the car hobby seems very small, compared to other subsets such as restoring vintage cars.