According to The Wall Street Journal:
MIDDLEVILLE, Mich. — It was around midnight one evening in November when Aaron Wissner shot up in bed, jolted awake by a fear: He wasn’t fully ready for the day when the world starts running low on oil.Yes, he had tripled the size of the garden in front of the tidy white-clapboard house he shares with his wife and infant son. He had stacked bags of rice in his new pantry, stashed gold valued at $8,000 in his safe-deposit box and doubled the size of the propane tank in his yard.
“But I felt panicky, like I needed more insurance,” he says. So the 38-year-old middle-school computer teacher put on his jacket and drove to an all-night gas station, where he filled three, five-gallon jugs with gasoline.
“It was a feel-good moment,” says his wife, Kimberly Sager. “But he slept better.”
Mr. Wissner has had more than a few fretful nights since he became “peak-oil aware,” as he calls it, about 30 months ago. In embracing the theory that the world’s oil production is about to peak, Mr. Wissner has tossed himself into a movement that is gaining thousands of adherents, egged on by soaring oil prices, the rarity of big new oil finds and writings on the Internet.
There are now dozens of “relocalization” working groups scattered from Maine to Southern California pushing for people to spurn cars, buy local produce and work where they live. Mr. Wissner’s own congressman, a Republican nuclear physicist named Vernon Ehlers, is part of the 13-member congressional Peak Oil Caucus formed in late 2005. City councils from Bloomington, Ind., to Portland, Ore., have passed peak-oil resolutions to gird for the looming crunch.
Many converts, like Houston oil banker Matthew Simmons, remain firm members of the suit-and-tie energy establishment. Others have gone “off-grid,” cutting ties to the mainstream economy and growing yams in their garden as they wait for the coming chaos. Mr. Wissner and his wife fall somewhere in the middle — alienated by a car-obsessed culture, but still part of it.
Ms. Sager remembers well her husband’s conversion. She returned home one afternoon in August 2005, from her job as a software engineer for General Electric Aviation and found him at his computer, deep into a Web site he had found while researching gas prices called lifeaftertheoilcrash.net.
Read the whole article at The Wall Street Journal
- The exact website converted me!! Liveaftertheoilcrash.net!! It’s about the same time that I found out about the energy crisis and I had sacrificed all my time and money to research into this fact to find solutions for sustainability development and the reality of peak oil. This whole blog does peak oil as the main key topics!!
It’s about time human response positively to peak oil and start preparing for a time after the oil becomes unsustainable and unable to sustain the current world population. Majority of the population lives in unsustainable city area that does not produce a single crop or meat for food and soon such food will become more scared to produce and deliver to your homes.
Study more and research more youtube videos on the keyword “Peak Oil” to understand what I mean!! ^_^
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