Rob Tucker's PMAR Proposal

[JWFITZ]

It is a thoughtful and well written piece but dated. Many experts today will say peaking has already occurred. We need to hope that isn't the case. I hate to hang my fate on hope and wishes, personally, and I think few would if they understood the gravity of the issue. Transition away from a oil based economy will take time, and unless we stay ahead of the curve--with a strong enough resource economy to afford such transitions, we're in real trouble. As far as I'm concerned if such notions are even discussed in the mainstream, it's a good thing. Once we admit we must transition, the question becomes "by when" and "how." For myself, as I see it the answer is "now" to the first question, and "I've no idea" for the second, as I think we've already screwed up. I hope I'm wrong about that, but I would solidly get behind any meaningful and proactive efforts to make progress. Again, personally there's a lot one can do to ease the inevitable shock, and due to the near complete lack of efforts on a large scale, personally advocating such techniques consumes most of my time. Regardless, what is utterly important, as the article states as well, one must make the transition BEFORE one suffers a supply crash. Why wait? What is gained by waiting?

If we started today, lockstep, towards moving the Big Island towards a significantly less oil reliant lifestyle, even with extreme and oppressive legislative coercion and massive investment, we're solidly 15 years out.

I appreciate anyone who takes the time to actually read that link. There's a lot there.

We've got to make the changes while we can still afford to, and being able to afford to requires we make those changes while fuel is still cheap.