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Shipping is cheap, and will stay cheap no matter what.

Air traffic though... But there are ways to make air traffic cheap again, if we're just willing to radically reconsider what flying is about, and how we arrange the internal infrastructure of airplanes. ;)

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Sat Oct 11th, 2008 at 09:18:01 AM EST
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As I said, if sea security becomes again hard to organise, shipping could be hard to organise. Which brings us back to the necessary autarcy of the middle age, or indeed WWII... I'd go for a place with plenty of agricultural land.

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Sat Oct 11th, 2008 at 09:40:21 AM EST
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