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Appearantly, it it very easy to convert ordinary cars to run on natural gas.
In the event of a sudden cessation of oil imports to us, count on that happening.
http://iea.org/textbase/stats/pdf_graphs/AMOIL.pdf
That's what I call a steep decline rate...
See how they don't use any heavy fuel oil anymore? They switched to biofuels. Chopped down all their forests. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
See how they don't use any heavy fuel oil anymore? They switched to biofuels. Chopped down all their forests.
The massive production of charcoal (at its height employing hundreds of thousands, mainly in Alpine and neighbouring forests) was a major cause of deforestation, especially in Central Europe. In England, many woods were managed as coppices, which were cut and regrew cyclically, so that a steady supply of charcoal would be available (in principle) forever; complaints (as early as in Stuart England) about shortages may relate to the results of temporary over-exploitation or the impossibility of increasing production. The increasing scarcity of easily harvested wood was a major factor for the switch to the fossil fuel equivalents, mainly coal and brown coal for industrial use.
I'm not really sure safety is tiptop there, to say the least, but just imagine the kind of cornercutting they must have been doing back in 1994 when the entire country was freezing in the darkness. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
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