Please don't say "we" when we are referring only to yourself and certain other people. You may be a self-confessed hypocrite about oil, and you certainly aren't alone, but I'm not with you. I'm thirty-eight, and I have never owned a car. I don't take long haul flights on a whim. I buy very little plastic. So leave me out of it.

As for those who do belong in that "we", they will have to feel the pain at some point, so better to start now than later. Finding ways to make oil cheap for a little longer only passes on the problem to your children. They won't thank you.

If the price of oil doesn't rise the demand for alternative solutions will never rise because the "oil system" now has fantastic economy of scale advantages.
As someone who believes in the scientific process I would like the use of fossil fuels to decrease as fast as possible. Since I, also, believe rationing will only lead to corruption I prefer to let, regulated, market forces drive the adaptation to a zero CO2 society.
When Americans buy 4$/gallon gasoline they drive 20 mpg cars. I buy 10$/gallon gasoline, I drive a 60 mpg car. See how it works?

It is too bad you cannot accept reality. A decade ago, I was still in the "bargaining" stage - just like you are now.

Steve, have you ever heard of SCIENCE?

It is not magic - it will not save you.

Do you know how to feed and shelter yourself without your precious fossil fueled industrial world?

We in the 3rd world still do it every day.

Good riddance to the industrial parasites.

Go ahead and delete this post too. Poor pathetic parasites.

Mr. LeVine's approach is more realistic than some people talking about global warming and trying to get credit about saving the world in a thousand year. He mentions Canadian oil sands, but it applies to Alaska and other preservation areas too. At this time, high oil prices hurts the US economy and make gains to many corrupt and authoritarian regimes in the Middle East, the former Soviet Union and North Africa. As western governments and private corporations sign long-term contract to explore and service oil fields in countries like Russia and Azerbaijan, ruling clans use it as leverage to blackmail open societies to recognize as equal partners while oppressing their nations. Instead using wealth gained from these oil contracts, 'elite' group sitting at the top of corrupt regimes use money for their own benefits without investing in countries' future and building right infrastructures. While the US and other western big corporations provide big wealth to these third World countries, the US taxpayers still end up sending foreign aids through Congressional programs. the World Bank and IMF projects, and non-transparent the UN programs. In addition, many people escape their own countries to immigrate to the US and other western democracies for better life need to be supported by welfare system financed through same taxpayers. It is one big devil's circle where we build a strong and centralized government and losing our own liberties while not being able to share basic human rights values and beliefs with the rest of the world.

It's possible, but I really doubt it. Car ownership is not even the issue. The issue is how you get from point A to point B on a daily basis - and your mode of travel most likely involves an internal combustion engine, burning mostly oil-based liquids.You may not take flights "on a whim". But it sounds like you still take some "serious" flights, and one of those serious flights can burn as much jet fuel as a flight taken on a whim. You may minimize your use of plastics stávkové kancelárie and that's great, but no one in the modern world lives without plastic. As someone else mentioned, the PC on which you typed this message contains loads of plastic. And even if you made a PC with a wooden case and keys made from shells, the internal parts would still require plastic, metals, silicon, etc - all of which require tremendous amounts of energy to mine, refine and manufacture.

At this time, high oil prices hurts the US economy and make gains to many corrupt and authoritarian regimes in the Middle East, the former Soviet Union and North Africa. As western governments and private corporations sign long-term contract to explore and service oil fields in countries like Russia and Azerbaijan, ruling clans use it as leverage to blackmail open societies to recognize as equal partners while oppressing their nations. Instead using wealth sázkové tipy gained from these oil contracts, 'elite' group sitting at the top of corrupt regimes use money for their own benefits without investing in countries' future and building right infrastructures. While the US and other western big corporations provide big wealth to these third World countries

To begin with, one of the most revealing speeches about world oil reserves went unremarked in 2006..

What does it mean? Why does this view of world reserves conflict so dramatically with the oil industry's view?

Probably most important for world oil policy, the Middle East does not have two thirds of all world oil reserves, as has long been claimed by the Saudis, the oil companies and the US Dept. of Energy. It only has two thirds of "proven" oil reserves which are far smaller than the potential reserves lexi belle describes.