When the oil supplys are depleted, how will we get by without cars and home heating etc etc.?
You can be nearly independent of oil right now. Install Solar Voltaic panels to generate your own electricity. Use a Geo Thermal Heat Pump to heat and cool your home/business that needs only the electricity made by your solar panels to run. Then use an Electric car to commute to work and back. The cost of the solar panels is dropping rapidly because of the increase in competition. Geo Thermal heat pumps are an established industry that we only need to start using, ideally when the house is built. And even at the primitive state that most electric cars are at now (please accept my apologies to the several electric cars that are very refined but expensive) they can make the average national commute of 25 miles one way. Using this three pronged attack would leave you independent of oil usage right now.
