Tuesday, October 24, 2006

How Cuba survived peak oil

People will be doing a lot more bicycling and carpooling. Even hitchhiking could become socially acceptable. Cuba went through an energy famine in the 1990s, and traffic cops there halted cars with empty seats and made them wait for hitchhikers. Cubans also created more urban gardens, produced more of their own food, and made more public-transportation options available.

~ from "An Interview with Richard Heinberg", The Sun

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