It just goes to show how dependant we are on oil!What are we going to do to prepare for when it runs out? (in fifty years or thereabouts)
I think that this has been an oportunity to take a look at our comfy cosy "secure" lifestyles, and to realize that it could all come tumbling down around our ears in a moment.
This is a lesson in alternative ways of approaching the way we live our lives from a real and tangible perspective.
I don't have a car, and my bike is doing fine. The problem for me is what happens to our food supply when something like this happens again on a more longlived scale.
All it takes is a couple of well positioned semtex devices .......