Search for solutions must start now to avoid another energy crisis

From Doug Clifton, the editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer:

In a world powered by oil and its derivatives, it takes no imagination to see the consequences of life without it – or even less of it. The economy would be the first to go. As oil supplies shrink, the price of everything, from gasoline to groceries, will soar.

Suburbs whose growth was fueled by cheap gas will shrivel and die. The trucks that brought goods to market will sit idle, as will the drivers who operated them. Entire industries will disappear. Our toasty warm homes will go cold.

Of course, we won’t do nothing. But will we do enough? And will we do it fast enough?

Plain Dealer