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The coming oil crisis is going to suck, but the one small silver lining is that when oil gets expensive, cities get better.

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Not Just Bikes โ€” When Oil Gets Expensive, Cities Get Better

We are heading into a new oil crisis, but this isn't the first time this has happened. The good news though is that history has shown us that when oil gets expensive, cities get better, and that's likely to happen again.
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GhostOnTheHalfShell

You need to take a little grief falling for the logical fallacy that itโ€™s OK to kill human beings and wipe out entire ecosystems to extract aluminum and copper and what not to drop in replace the energy intensity of the global economy.

In the three US states where adobe can be used as a construction material. You can build houses that donโ€™t need energy to remain comfortable year-round without any energy and with materials that are right under our feet

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GhostOnTheHalfShell

Your premise is the same premise about car centric design, which is letโ€™s throw really expensive. Long supply chain infrastructure into human daily life and think itโ€™s good..

All the Engineering talent of the world is devoted to building out scale, which means long supply chains, which means energy intensity, and that scale that means burning the planet down or killing it otherwise

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Except maybe in New Jersey, which enacted laws which will reduce the number of eBikes in use. I just sold my eTrike I use for hauling groceries and other local errands and will be buying a non-motorized trike.
In general NJ is pretty good, but they're too heavy-handed in regulating eBikes.
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luca

I think that the hypothesis on oil prices is wrong, unfortunately.
The slow, progressive, changes have happened because of environment pollution. What's unfortunate is the too slow reaction to an environmental crisis.
Now oil prices should be the main concern for a change? A totally wrong view on the real crisis, driven by stock markets, instead of the real problems.
In the 70s there wasn't an idea of how serious things are today.
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ร‰tienne Parmentier

right now in France underpayed nurses struggle to make a living because the price of oil is jacked up. This means the elderly and the ill will struggle even more. We therefore need to also tax the hell out of oil companies to fund all of the changes we need, and help these workers do their jobs. We canโ€™t wait for these changes to happen naturally !
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