La Crosse Tribune calls for efficiency in face of peak oil

Monday, February 06, 2006

La Crosse Tribune editorial writer Richard Mial offers his views on the end of cheap oil:

When my wife quit her newspaper job 22 years ago to start a writing business, I wish I had had the presence of mind to encourage her to start an oil company instead.

Instead of scraping along from mortgage payment to mortgage payment, we could be making obscene profits. Members of Congress would be trying to impose a windfall profits tax on us.

Sigh.

. . . we’re running out of oil — or at least we’re running out of oil that can be gotten cheaply. Since more than 67 percent of the oil consumed in the United States is used for transportation, one would think we would want to have more fuel-efficient cars.