Question by gumby08: Solutions to peak oil?
What is the USA doing about the oil crisis? Drilling wont be good forever..Is anyone planing on rebuilding railway systems? Who is in charge of that? All these ?’s come because I just watched the film”the end of suburbia”. Is green living solutions still a grass roots movement or is the USA taking action?
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Answer by Tashkent T
Many of the problems of diminishing oil reserves can be made easier by common sense. Other difficulties can be partially solved by looking at ALTERNATIVE sources of hydrocarbons.
a) North Americans could drive smaller engine cars.
b) Make more use of ‘carshare’, using ONE CAR ONLY when two / three people each have to travel a long distance between two / three similar departure and arrival points.
c) Walk or cycle rather than make silly one mile car journeys.
d) Promote enthusiasm for electric, battery powered car technology.
e) Only heat the home or the office when it really needs heating – reduce the dail one or two degrees and you are unlikely to notice the difference except when you receive your invoice fromn the utility company.
f) We could rely on coal (which exists in almost infinite quantities) increasingly over oil deposits as the source of our hydrocarbon needs as Hitler did during the Second World War and South Africa has done more recently.
g) Exploit the Alberta Tar Sands to a greater degree.
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