Jim Kingsdale

High Steel Prices: A Preview of Peak Oil

CJ: I'm more optimistic on alternative transport because solar thermal, PV, wave and other renewable sources for electricity are fast becoming economic and practical. Link those to an electric vehicle and, boom, you get an alternative transport system. You probably are familiar with this model as promoted by A Better Place (www.projectbetterplace.../) and you probably know that both Israel and Denmark have adopted it as national policy. While those countries have certain advantages in implimenting it, eventually it can be used virtually everywhere I think. But it first takes the intelligence, determination, and expertise of a government to make it work. Jim