Due to , oil prices will not abate anytime soon and are likely to go higher in the future. Matthew Simmons, author of Twilight in the Desert, believes that oil will hit $300/barrel.
I think LTA should consider bicycle lanes on our roads. Cycling will be an increasingly attractive option in coming years when oil prices go through the roof.
The only viable and obvious, but politically incorrect, long term solution is to reduce our population. We need to reexamine our misguided quest for population and economic growth which comes at the expense of environmental and ecological sustainability.
In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If continued at this rate, with the population doubling every 40 years, by 2600 we would all be standing literally shoulder to shoulder. -- Professor Stephen Hawking
Due to , oil prices will not abate anytime soon and are likely to go higher in the future. Matthew Simmons, author of Twilight in the Desert, believes that oil will hit $300/barrel.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IwtAQzrfiw
Robert Hirsch who authored the Hirsch energy report thinks $500/barrel oil is easily attainable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=489IEnzg6GU
I think LTA should consider bicycle lanes on our roads. Cycling will be an increasingly attractive option in coming years when oil prices go through the roof.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segregated_cycle_facilities
The only viable and obvious, but politically incorrect, long term solution is to reduce our population. We need to reexamine our misguided quest for population and economic growth which comes at the expense of environmental and ecological sustainability.
Singapore's Carrying Capacity (http://sgentropy.blogspot.com/)
In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If continued at this rate, with the population doubling every 40 years, by 2600 we would all be standing literally shoulder to shoulder. -- Professor Stephen Hawking