Oil, Jihad & Destiny – some comments

Re-reading the New Yorker piece on depletion (thanks Anon), I was struck by a comment made about energy independence by Robert Ebel (who works for CSIS). He said “it will never happen in my lifetime.” And it struck me that there is this perception that nothing much will really change when Peak Oil appears and that it is assumed that it will not affect the way in which the nation operates.

The same thought struck me as I read Ronald Cooke’s “Oil, Jihad & Destiny” this weekend. His response has perhaps been one of the more publicized to the CERA report and Yergin’s publicity campaign for it.

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One sees those changes already at the edges of our society. While it may not make the major papers yet, the effects of the continued high price of gasoline is getting more coverage in regional papers. And in those articles you find that local business owners are curtailing vacations, and already taking steps to trim fuel costs but still trying to keep from raising their prices to customers.

More after the jump at The Oil Drum