fossil fuels

[nibot]

Supposing that we have already passed the time of peak oil production, my question for you is this: in what year will we see fewer cars on California roads than in the previous year?

At what point will the Interstate Highways be fossil roads, abandoned relics, like the decaying steel towns of Pennsylvania, like the Erie Canal?

When will Phoenix be Detroit?

Or will someone invent the coal-powered car and doom us all? (The plug-in Prius actually burns coal.)

Comments

[nibot.livejournal.com]

The Phoenix / Detroit comparison is also deliciously ironic: Detroit's boom-bust cycle was also due to the automobile.

[easwaran.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking that as I re-read this post this morning. It's too bad that Phoenix doesn't have a similar signature industry. (Semiconductors is the only thing that comes to mind, but I'm sure that's only a relatively tiny fraction of its economy.)

Las Vegas

[nibot.livejournal.com]

I'm fascinated by your post about Las Vegas (http://easwaran.livejournal.com/461460.html).