Peak Oil? Don't ask the "experts"


	Peak Oil? Don't ask the "experts"

rlmrdl

6-22-2008 3:01 AM

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peak oil, public transport, infrastructure

rlmrdl says:

Falling big car sales, bus and train ridership up, airlines in trouble all over, $1,000 fuel surcharges. The pollies and the oil producers and the pundits may be fighting about PO, but it looks like the rest of us get it.

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