Oil’s Not Well, So Let’s Find Alternative

Anyone who’s young, particularly below the age of 30, should pay special attention to the content of this column.

You and your future children may well be living through an age of crisis and worse, our government and citizens seem blissfully unaware of anything more than its most simple ramifications.

The catastrophe I speak of stares us in the face each time we fill up our gas tanks, hop on the bus, or even turn on our air conditioners. If the status quo remains unaltered, an energy crisis is coming, and its effects will strike at my generation, as well as those following it, with an ever increasing urgency.

The sky is not falling, but bits of cloud are slowly beginning their descent. The crisis we face is not simply one of oil (despite the obvious increase in the price of gasoline we all see at the pumps) but quite literally a comprehensive shortage of energy. The shortage is merely most apparent and first evidenced, by our imminent depletion of cheap oil.
Ottawa Sun