[coyote]

Believe me, I understand that Peak Oil is a very serious subject. But hey, not everything about it has to be all bad, right? Surely, at least some of the things that will disappear when cheap oil does, the world might be better off without. Things that are annoying, destructive, offensive, anything like that.

I'll get the ball rolling:

Leafblowers.

I hate those things... Noisy, irritating, unnecessary, Saturday destroyers! It will be a good day when the last of those... things... is tossed onto a junkheap for lack of throwaway energy.

What else?

[AnniCat]

choking on a big blue plume of diesel fumes from a bus or truck. i've disliked that smell since i was about 6.

[Aimrehtopyh]

Crappy goods of asian manufacture being ones ONLY consumer option.

Megaschools designed like prisons.

Snow Birds (They're as insufferable up here as they are down there)

Bumper-to-bumper standstill traffic on a freeway designed for 100mph.

Oil spills

Daily Driver vehicles that are taller than I am.

[aldente]

[cynthia]

Drivers who run red lights. When gasoline is beyond the budget, I'm betting the lead-footed ones will not prevail.
cynthia

[Jellric]

A-freakin' man!!

Leafblowers are the bane of my existence. I live across the street from an apt. complex and every Monday they blow through with those damn contraptions..and I am NOT a morning person. Why do they have to be so goddamn LOUD?? Not the operators, the machines themselves.

[ubercynicmeister]

What will I not miss, in the Post Peak Oil world?

YUPPIES.

And my aim's gittin' better.

[grillzilla]

The ubiquitous rumble of jet aircraft, and the annoying buzz of civil aviation.

No matter where you go, no matter how far into the wilderness you travel, it seems there is always the sound of jets flying overhead. It is so common that I really notice its absence.

[killJOY]

People.

[Cobra_Strike]

Less cheap plastic crap from MalWart

Fewer people, there going to be fewer somehow.

[wildilocks]

Hahaha. The obvious one: less assholes in 4WDs [SUVs for most of you] cutting in front of me on my scooter cos they can't see me, and/or don't care anyway.

And less people. I really like the idea of less people in general.

[Terran]

People blasting out rap music, as they drive by.

Gas powered Lawn mowers, those things are annoying, and the smell of burning gasoline doubles as that.

Huge malls, they're a waste of space, and I never visit then anyways.

The layer of dust that covers everything over time, most of it is car exhaust.

The risk of getting run over by a car, while I'm biking. By then there will be more bikes, and less cars.

Billboards, and various other forms of advertising.

[Laurasia]

I won't miss on-the-job stress; and that awful feeling when the alarm clock goes off and you know you've GOT to get up and face the daily grind. Ugh tomorrow's Monday!

Regards,

L.

[JoeCoal]

I won't miss the horrible feeling of being all alone in a crowd. When the impossible nightmare of globalism collapses into the sensibility of localism, then you will know almost every face you see, instead of drowning in a sea of strangers.

Yeah, I won't miss all these strangers from out-of-town, not at all...

[basil_hayden]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Shannymara', '
')It's true. During the days after 9/11 when air traffic was grounded we sat outside enjoying the silence quite a bit.

[SoothSayer]

I won't miss:

- huge trucks carrying 10kg of potato crisps (chips).

- huge trucks carrying ridiculous expensive supermarket salad portions in shrink wrap ... especially all those that come from the factory up the road from my house

- daytime TV ... ooops, that will stay to hypnotise the people who can't drive anywhere anymore

- barbecue fumes

[MadMarcus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JoeCoal', 'I') won't miss the horrible feeling of being all alone in a crowd. When the impossible nightmare of globalism collapses into the sensibility of localism, then you will know almost every face you see, instead of drowning in a sea of strangers.

Yeah, I won't miss all these strangers from out-of-town, not at all...

[RacerJace]

road rage
company yes men
pointless reports to executives that don't read them anyway
bureaucracy
globalisation
products/services that add to the overshoot problem
cosmetic surgery for the sake of vanity
crap prefab music (including doof doof)
big brother and other pseudo reality tv shows
ponsi elitist arseholes in designer brand name clothes
trucks carrying a payload of plastic packaged crap across the country
plastic crap
increasing complexity in products for assuming consumers
commercialising religious occasions for the non-religious (e.g. Christmas and Easter)
the effects marketing has on self esteem (especially on children / teenagers)
consumerism / materialism
the idea of “he who dies with the most toys wins”

and

leaf blowers (oh yeah this one is a doosy)

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[coyote]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Laurasia', 'U')gh tomorrow's Monday!

[aldente]

Arrogance. is another factor that will not be missed past PeakOil.
A certain part of the population always tends to mutate over time and seemingly elevates for unknown heights and PO will ground a lot of those high flyers. The term 'community' will be a reality all from a sudden (though only for a short time probably since there is this darn non-sustainable factor that Kunstler so accurately hints to all the time). But that's another story anyway.