Reply #49: Oil won't last forever, and the price will only go up. [View All]

[Sirveri]

If we really wanted something that worked, we'd centralize our economy around major urban hubs and mass transit networks, which would provide enough jobs for full employment for quite a while. But American's would rather have freedom to ignore their neighbors and live in McMansions out in the suburbs that have everything they could ever desire so they have no need to leave the house and actually interact with other human beings. Or something like that. Point is this, we will need an alternative either for oil or for transportation because it is a finite resource and we're using it dramatically faster than we are finding it.