If a real gas shortage were to happen tomorrow ...

Well I already ride my bike to all my classes, so I would be fine with that. But I guess cross season would be cancelled. Sure can't run to all of the meets!

I have already biked to work when I can. I also have a motorcycle that I can ride. Now, if it rains then I would have a problem but, it would be doable in a crisis.

Its easy to bike places now because no one rides a bike. Think of the mess you'd have with everone haveing bikes with carts and no real speed regulations (my concern being all the fat slow people).

It's time for alt fuel.

I agree there's a real need for alternate fuel, but I kind of think it'd be easier to ride bikes with far fewer cars out on the road. First, a lot of those slow, fat people just will NOT be out on bikes anyway. Those that are would have to lose some of that fat, and that would make them less annoying. Second, take your average 3-lane highway and reserve one for motorized travel only and turn the other two into, oh, four or five bike lanes. Surely that would help. And I know a real gas shortage would have many more far-reaching implications than I've brought up (those of you in the far suburbs, for example, may be screwed on many levels), but I'm just trying to spur some discussion and get a general gauge of readiness.

Why...do u know something we don't?

Nope, just concerned. I've always been a worst-case-scenario kind of guy.

I can ride my bike to work, probably early March - late November, maybe more depending on weather (we get snow). 11 miles each way but there's an urban path for most of that which I could ride on.

I can walk to the grocery store.

There'd just be more busses and bikes and such. It would be like you were living in England, or so I assume, I've never been there.

[quote]We got a bleeder! wrote:

Think of the mess you'd have with everone haveing bikes with carts and no real speed regulations quote]

But there'd be a corresponding decrease in people driving SUVs while simultaneously cell-phoning, drinking a latte, and watching a dvd on their laptops, so I'd be willing to take my chances.

Colorado wrote:

Why...do u know something we don't?

I know something... fuel will be about $15-$20 a gallon soon, maybe 8 years. This process is irreversible without widespread fuel rationing

maybe sooner than you think.... the assholes at BP have to replace about 6 miles of their alaskan pipeline because of corrosion that easily could have been prevented.

If there's a peak theory from wiki it WILL happen in exactly 8 years so we better prepare now!

xyz wrote:

I can ride my bike to work, probably early March - late November, maybe more depending on weather (we get snow). 11 miles each way but there's an urban path for most of that which I could ride on.

I can walk to the grocery store.

I would ride your mom to work!

Randall Pink wrote:

maybe sooner than you think.... the assholes at BP have to replace about 6 miles of their alaskan pipeline because of corrosion that easily could have been prevented.

Maybe if you and Wooderson weren't cruising around, wasting gas in "Melba Toast", we wouldn't have this problem.

xyz wrote:

I can ride my bike to work, probably early March - late November, maybe more depending on weather (we get snow). 11 miles each way but there's an urban path for most of that which I could ride on.

I can walk to the grocery store.

The grocery store? in this kind of situation the 'Grocery Store' will be forced to price all ALL of its groceries three-four times what it usually costs. thats if they can get any in the first place. Remember they need gas too, to get food trucks in. Even a modest sized grocery store like Food Lion would require two-three large truck loads of food a day. Not to mention many power plants run on oil, and almost all generators and back up power sources use oil as a fuel. Basically put we would be screwed on many more levels and simply WALKING, RUNNING, OR RIDING A BIKE would not alleviate the problem. America would be royally F**Ked.

I'd move to the wilderness of western Canada and live off the land. Maybe I'd even make a 400m dirt track in the middle of the woods, that'd be pretty sweet.

I hope you have insurance, knowitall, because I'm about to blow your doors off!

Kele wrote:

I'd move to the wilderness of western Canada and live off the land. Maybe I'd even make a 400m dirt track in the middle of the woods, that'd be pretty sweet.

if you moved to western canada you wouldn't have to live off the land. they have enough oil there to support themselves for centuries (if they stopped selling to outsiders, at least).

[quote]Speeve wrote:

I know something... fuel will be about $15-$20 a gallon soon, maybe 8 years. This process is irreversible without widespread fuel rationing

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Oh really, Speeve?

http://www.reason.com/links/links080806.shtml