Dude, don't fall the forever
Dude, don't fall the forever and ever oil talk. Peak oil isn't about doom and gloom. It's about the rate and cost at which production cannot meet demand, that's all. It has ecomomic consequences which may just very well be as simple as having less stuff and spending less. Don't listen to the banking, financial, economic, money people. Clearly they have an interest in having lots of money. They are going to tell you anything, just like car salesmen. All of these alternatives cost money that simply isn't available. Investment dudes don't live in reality ok, they are money people. Money people detach from the physical world. We all want to believe in the whole barrel is half full not empty mentality. The fact is the barrel is half full and half empty at the same time, you don't get to 'physically' choose sides. If you do, it's called denial. And denial is a form of psychosis. In other words, a pathological condition of the mind. Mental Illness. Innovation is awesome but keep it real mate. The market is the market, just an indicator of how good or bad things are in terms of trade. The market is not the be all and end all. No energy, no money, no market. There, there's my rant. There's no replacement for oil because if there was, we wouldn't be so desperate to have it. People only do things because they have to, that's how energy works. The path of least resistance.