Selling the world on a less dependent lifestyle

About 5 miles from Truckers International, a local contingent of this fringe community meets once a month at the Unitarian-Universalist Church in Waterville.

Members of the Peak Oil Group subscribe to the prediction made by the late M. King Hubbert, a geologist with Shell Oil Co., that oil production will reach its worldwide peak as soon as this year — hence the term “Hubbert’s Peak.”

There’s not an SUV to be found among the 10 in the group.