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10% is the US figure, the world figure is less than 5%.

If you read 'my solution' it quotes moving more freight by less energy intensive forms of transport and some localisation, in which case oil ...

As a matter of fact, I have.

Food prices are hardly affected by oil prices in any case.Oil (and natural gas) is used in preparing the land, fertilizing the soil, sowing the seed, tending the crop, killing the pests, harvesting th ...

Well if you want my honest answer, I don't really especially care. Since oil prices have tripled in the last couple of years, hardly anything has changed for me. The supermarkets have billions more re ...

It's like a religion to you people this stuff isn't it?

'Why can't you accept that this is the truth. You know this is the way. Don't fear my freind, you know you have to believe'.

Listen, most ...

Wow, Wildwell's lack of imagination is still getting to me even though I am supposedly ignoring him.

Most towns and villages have some vacant land round and about. Most apartment buildings have li ...

It's my belief we will not suddenly become stoopid simply because we have less energy.

It depends on the extent of power down.

How are you supposed to learn if books are hard to come by, or cann ...

Talks about 1/5th of an acre. Well, a home with that sort of land near me costs about $1 millionWhy does it have to be near to where you live now? I get the impression (from this and the rest of your ...

I did read the sites, not in a huge detail but I did read them.

http://www.pathtofreedom.com/urbanhomestead/ataglance.shtml

Talks about 1/5th of an acre. Well, a home with that sort of land nea ...

It's no good harking back to the 1950s, saying we did OK then, because we have a very different society now, much more global, much bigger and with aspirations that are almost expected, rather than ...

Sometimes I feel that some Peak Oilers want to return to the Middle Ages.

However even if energy gets cut right back, we can never unlearn what humanity has learned over the centuries.

(Note: We ...

I can't do anything to increase my chances of survival as I don't have $1 million for the property I need in Ludi's solution other than what I'm doing. Remember I don't have any land.

Ok enough wi ...

I agree, Tonyprep. If we have no other choice than to rely on the government then we are truly doomed.

We are doomed.

Use your vote, start writing to newspapers/Magazines, join groups, spend ...

So I see no other choice that the government(s) must educate the population and put in certain checks and balances as well as plan adequately for PO and long term sustainability.Wildwell, you might se ...

See, there's the problem, calling something "bollocks" when you know so very little about it.

And claiming permaculture and related technologies can't help people in cities and towns. If you'd rea ...