Reply #12: I agree; re-reading, I think I come off way too negative, but [View All]

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I'm just trying to point out this will be a very complicated problem, and as near as I can tell, we (in the "entire USA" sense of the word) are doing nada. It seems like peak oil will change everything that makes this society function.

Ideally we could start with a reasonable energy policy (no tax breaks for 6000 lb SUVs as was recently implemented), and go from there. 200 billion a year would be a great start, but it would almost take a Manhattan Project or Moor Race effort to get there. And by "there", I mean a renewable energy future, whatever that will look like.