future
are we screwed when oil gets expensive? not entirely. we have to do two things. one, we will use energy more efficiently. cause we'll have to. currently, we're terribly wasteful. just look at the popularity of suv's for cryin out loud. any company that can do more with less will have a huge advantage. and survive. its competitors will go out of business. the other thing we need to do is control our population. all of our predictions about future energy needs make the assumption (implicitly or explicitly) that our population will eventually stabilize. and the sooner the better. there is /no/ energy solution if our population can continue to grow without bound. the doomsday scenario is where 90% of humans die off because of starvation, war, disease, etc. likely? no. possible? yes. avoidable? yes, but it's much more likely if we're imbeciles and maintain this faith based course of denying facts of reality.