$3.00 gas really wouldn't change anything in cities where the Median home sells for well over $.5 Million.
Eventually, peoples habbits will change: Right now people are content to sit in traffic for 2-4 hours a day...I know I wouldn't do that, I'd be more likely to take a train if I had to do that kind of daily commute...but lots of people seem happy enough to do it: So much so that the suburbs keep sprawling away from the city centers...Eventually that will no longer be the case, and people will move closer to where they work.
I think the change will happen in our life-times, and I think in some cases it is already happening. Cities need to find creative ways to encourage home and apartment building closer to train, bus and other mass-transit stations...And they need to keep their communities livable without charging such high taxes that they drive all sane people away.
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I just don't think it is that dire...
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- A website about the Saudi Arabian Ghawar oil field
- re: A website about the Saudi Arabian Ghawar oil field
- An excellent post.
- Don't forget China: it is a communist country
- China's economy will slow as the price of oil goes up.
- Times are a changing
- I just don't think it is that dire...
- You've probably seen this website....
- a few comments on your scenarios:
- #4 is sort of what they did in California with electricity.
- Has our oil supply already peaked?
- re: A website about the Saudi Arabian Ghawar oil field