I just love this guy’s columns. No chicken littling, just logical analysis (resting on the premise that oil depletion will be harmful.)
as depletion continues, the unavailability of gasoline will start to threaten the two things most can’t do without: commuting to work and getting the stream of life-sustaining “stuff” (food, clothes, medicine) to our homes.
In the not too distant future, there will come a time when any retail establishment depending on a parking lot for its customers will be in trouble. There simply won’t be enough gas available for all our current vehicles. Universal ownership of electric vehicles will still be many years away. Americans are currently running around in some 210 million cars and light trucks, so the line to buy replacements, if we can still afford to make and buy them, will be decades long…
A moment’s reflection will bring one to the notion that the Postal Service is the one institution that already has infrastructure in place to deliver things to every home in the country. It has buildings and deliverers nearly everywhere, plus the organization, the management, and electric delivery vans. It has the management experience of massively expanding its operations during the Christmas rush.
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