Peak Oil News - Portland, San Francisco, and Salisbury, Maryland, consider "peak oil";

As "peak oil," the inevitable point of irreversible decline in the availability of the substance to which U.S. President George W. Bush has belated admitted the country is "addicted," surges in public awareness, some U.S. cities are rushing to address it, while others are burying their heads in the oil sands (formerly tar sands) and doing nothing. Portland, Oregon, San Francisco, California, and Salisbury, Maryland, are all moving rapidly to consider the implications for their residents of the "peak oil" phenomenon.

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