re: #243 Gus 802

89 years which is three times the 30 years I mentioned above. 30 years in which we’ve essentially done nothing to change our modes. Instead we’ll spend trillions (in the long run) giving the oil companies tax breaks, widening highways, building bridges to nowhere, and so on. Those 89 years will go fast even though I won’t be around to see it.

The entire highway infrastructure is so misguided given the relative scarcity of oil. At some point in the next 80 years our access to oil is likely going to drop dramatically, leaving our streets as empty as North Korea’s, unless we come up with some very pioneering ways of 1) developing electric vehicles and 2) replacing all the components of a car that currently require oil to be produced with some other substance (the wheels, all the plastic etc etc).