"Everyone needs to drive a Honda (or equivalent)"

[jeffreyab]

A nice essay on the state of oil by Jad Mouawad a staff reporter for The New York Times:

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/jad_mouawad/index.html?inline=nyt-per

Via john_of_arabia

I also think we need to get used to living closer to our jobs and stores, get used to riding the bus and train and ships, which are the easiest forms of travel to convert from oil to alternate sources of energy and higher prices for everything.

The future will look more like Japan and Europe and less like June and Ward Cleaver.

Oddly the lifestyle of Lucy and Ricky is more sustainable, at least in the early years in NYC.

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[avt-tor.livejournal.com]

On the subject of staying closer to their jobs, Lucille Ball pioneered a sort of precursor of teleconferencing by building a replica of her upstate New York house on the Paramount production lot. In a different age, she had to maintain a public persona of being a suburban housewife, while in reality she was an important studio executive. She would give interviews on the porch of her "house" without the bother of having to fly east.

Of course we are all indebted to Lucy for financing the pilot of Star Trek and selling it to the NBC network.