Remember the Environment?

Remember the Environment? Global warming, scarcity of energy resources, peak oil, collapsing ice shelves? Any of this sound familiar?

Why aren't we talking about it anymore? Is it because the price of gasoline has fallen a few cents?

The problem did not go away just because the price has dropped. The addiction to cheap oil still exists. The dealer just found that we weren't quite as addicted as believed. The price went up so fast that people actually began to change their habits and wean themselves (if a two percent drop can be called "weaning,"). So the price is back down. The dealers, both the transnational and nationalized oil companies, are trying to make sure the junkies keep feeding their addiction to oil.

Discussion of the crisis in energy supplies seems to have abated. True, there is a focus on so many other things as the economy collapses and the new administration comes to power. However, the fact remains, as I continue to say - Oil is Over! What are we doing about it?

Now is the time to begin to advance alternative energy. The future is clear. An oil based economy is doomed. If we do not change, our carcasses will be the future oil.