This article seems to overlook the whole Peak Oil issue:  That the age of cheap oil is basically dead and the culture it spawned is in its death-throes.  People will have no choice but to make changes.<p>I suspect some of those changes will involve simply using less commercial energy: Living closer to work, shopping closer to home, walking more, carpooling more, using more public transit, bicycling more.  There is also a lot that can be done for buildings in terms of passive solar design, some of which can be retrofitted even though passive solar is something which works best when incorporated into the design of a building from the get go. When there simply isn't enough money in the household budget for the long commutes so many Americans make, changes will take place, one way or another.  And it <i>will</i> happen.  The only way out of it is to find some new huge oil field.  As I understand it, geologists have ruled that out as a possibility.<p>You simply can't burn what you don't have.  Kicking and screaming or not, change is on its way.