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May 23, 2008
The future or the past? It's the latter with soaring petrol prices and peak oil a reality. Todays 4WD's will become antique collectors’ items. They were premised on depended on cheap petrol
Gary Sauer-Thompson. sign, Adelaide CBD, 2008
Big changes in the way we live in our cities will start to happen as we need to find ways top live that requires us to drive less. Sure, city councils are encouraging more people to live in the CBD, they do very little about reducing the imprint of the car as a way to move around the city. Adelaide, for instance, is beholden to the car industry. The car is sacred.
The price of oil may not definitely be headed over $200 a barrel, as per some of the more pessimistic claims made by analysts, but with 1.3 billion Chinese and 1 billion Indians eager for a western standard of living, demand for everything we consume, and particularly energy, is going to keep rising. It is going to become political.
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