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Running On Empty
A Handbook for Understanding and Surviving the Energy Crisis
Crisis (Kri’sis) A crucial point or situation in the course of anything; a turning point. An unstable condition in political, international or economic affairs in which an abrupt or decisive change is impending.
—From the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.
Introduction
Can you imagine a world without oil? If you know all of the ways that oil impacts our modern world you will understandably have a difficult time imagining such a world. Our automobiles that give us our freedom of mobility, the food we eat, the products we buy and sell, our warm comfortable homes, all are made possible by the ease with which we can obtain oil and other fossil fuels. If you have traveled to undeveloped third world countries, you can begin to understand what a world without oil would be like. And yet even the poorest of these countries have cars, things made of plastic and many things that are dependent upon oil. The closest one can come to a place completely devoid of anything related to oil is the Amazon jungle where remote tribes with little or no contact with the outside world reside. This is not a world in which any of us would want to live...
