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At the last meeting of our Oil Awareness group, one concern seemed to be shared by everyone present: ”why don’t they get it?”. What members are referring to is the feeling that colleagues, government, officers of authorities just don’t seem to ”get” the significance of: 1) the vast amounts of energy...

Dominic. You know best... and in the UK I can imagine there are areas of poor and expensive public transport, combined with personal choice of commute, that refute my hypothesis. Just let me check: Travelling time is worked out in minutes Time saved, minutes=((Public transport time - (Time used for ...

Good comment! I have the maths somewhere in Swedish but I challenge you to work this out: A man says "I save time by owning a car" Ask him how much time he saves a week Then ask him how much his car costs. Then ask him how long he has to work to earn the money to pay the car. You will find...

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I'm so glad my post created the debate above. I hope it has been useful. A few follow-on comments: Credit crunch and energy For a deeper analysis of the connections between the credit crunch and energy, and some insights into gas, see the Reality Report with Jason Bradford. http://globalpublicmedia....

My last trip to England http://www.powerswitch.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8772&highlight= showed a country being hit by the effects of the peak of oil production. My visit over New Year shows a country nose-diving into a new kind of recession: one that has no end. Some examples: UK’s refinanci...

<P> So Peak of Oil is here then? Not actually, what we are seeing is a reduction in oil production, but due to lack of investment, not of actual oil in the ground potentially able to be pumped up so we are awash of the stuff. <P> But wait a minute.... this investment you are talking about, that's li...

Holidaying in Britain, the country of my birth from which I emigrated nearly 30 years ago, thoughts of sustainable planet were giving way to visits to the pub, fish and chips and long walks in the countryside. Not for long. Wherever I look I see Britain is about to enter a period of deep crisis the ...

So what would a country living sustainable look like? How would a city look? What work would people do? How would the economy work? These questions are the starting point for the novel ”Inventing for the Sustainable Planet” by Post Carbon Sweden co-ordinator Stephen Hinton. The book follows the lite...

Once again Sweden, the first nation to proclaim its intention to become oil independent, acts disappointingly in a way far removed from what many believed were its true intentions. As reported in the Swedish daily newspapers on the 24th July, the Swedish State are to finance a research and developme...

Comments on the oil commission?s report have been very few in the Swedish media. Perhaps because it was released during the holiday period or because the issue is so complex, that in criticising the report you show how much you do not know. SvD, the right wing Swedish national daily newspaper, howev...

When the capitalist system (or if..) breaks down you will be more reliant on your neighbours. AS long as you have built up a "silent" community all will be better. It will be not about how much money you have, but who trusts you. If everyone helped everyone out we might handle the crisis. ...

Last week, the commission on oil dependency, tasked with charting Sweden?s way out of dependency, issued its report. The Swedish Parliament and public sector is to review the proposals for decision after the elections in September. Disappointingly, the report fails to address the heart of the issue ...

AVBP?s Stephen Hinton analyses the report released from Sweden?s Oil Commission. Some nine months after Sweden officially announced it was to break its dependence on oil, the commission set up to answer the question ?how? presented its report Wednesday the 28th June. This report comes against the ba...