Conference touts alternatives to oil

Outside in the parking lot, Bob Swaim entertained people by riding around on his eclectic collection of bicycles.

Inside in the lecture hall, sustainable energy was an almost desperate alternative to the disturbing decline of the world’s oil resources.

Tom Whipple of the Association for the study of Peak Oil and Gas told those attending the “life after cheap oil” seminar at Wilson College that the world is expected to reach peak oil between 2008 and 2010. Peak oil is the point after which oil production enters a terminal decline.

The exact date doesn’t matter, he said.

Chambersburg Public Opinion (PA)