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Re:Peak Oil Perspective by UweSchmidt on Monday September 09, 2013 @04:10PM (#6355834)
There could however be a state where things just are not as convenient as they are now. There is no law of nature that says things have to stay as fun as they are now after we have depleted this unique resource that nature had to digest dinosaur bones for a few millions of years for.

Tesla's looking good though, so there's hope.

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Re:Peak Oil Perspective by fleitz on Monday September 09, 2013 @04:28PM (#6355957)
There's also the self-driving car which drastically reduces the number of cars required to replace the existing fleet.
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Re:Peak Oil Perspective by UweSchmidt on Monday September 09, 2013 @05:20PM (#6356290)
How is that?
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Re:Peak Oil Perspective by nitroscott on Monday September 09, 2013 @05:34PM (#6356393)
Imagine running trucks 24 hours a day. With no sleep constraints, you can move almost twice as much stuff with the same # of cars. Increase utilization and speed which would have great impacts on efficiency.
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Re:Peak Oil Perspective by glenra on Monday September 09, 2013 @11:05PM (#6357894)
Those hypothetical cars and trucks would wear out twice as fast and consequently need to be replaced twice as often as before.
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