Dave's Cave

It is really quite funny following some of the lists that discuss Peak Oil. Maybe 1 in 20 of the members are interested in considering the real implications, and the other 95% are mostly the doom and gloom sort that jump from one potential catastrophe to the next. Y2K did not pan out for them, so now they are jumping on the Peak Oil bandwagon. Many of them are actually cheering for the downfall of civilization.

Just like with Y2K, there are a hell of a lot of potential outcomes, and while the one they are hoping for is certainly a possibility, I wouldn't bet on it. Not only do we have all the technology that we had available before the oil age, we have improved on a lot of it. Here in the Northwest we don't burn oil to generate our electricity, we get it from the turbines in the dams.

Why the hell do people complain about SUVs without even taking a couple of minutes to consider that many of them, possibly even a majority of them, are used properly and in a way that higher mileage cars simply will not be able to replace.

Okay, there are some really good reasons to complain about the way that certain people use their SUVs. If all you do is drive it around town with one person in it 98% of the time, then you are being incredibly wasteful.

But the fact is that they were designed for a specific purpose, and when used for that purpose, they can be far more efficient than any Prius, and when you get outside the confines of the city, they tend to be used for those purposes a lot more often.