http://www.downsizer.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=191
This is the most concise overview I have seen to a very worrying fact that many of our governments seem to be ignoring. We are now at the midpoint where we are halfway through the oil reserves on earth, it can only get 'worse' as we continue to use up this finite resource.
However, its also an opportunity. One of my goals on my 1111 day oddysey is to learn to be less reliant on the 'commercial norm', so, if I can conciously choose not to use my car on my days off, or if I can choose to eat food that hasnt travelled halfway round the earth, then I am making personal choices that perpare me for the day, about 30years hence, when there is no oil left. Hopefully, almost everyone else will do the same and the current 30 year supply will be eked out to 300 or so as we gradually become less reliant on it. But I have to make that first step, becaiuse no-one else can make it for me.
Sobering stuff. Am I equal to the challenge?