No props for the DFH's.

DFH's weren't right or effective.

You can live a low-carbon lifestyle that is rewarding without buying all of the DFH baggage.

What's a DFH?

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Can we discuss peak oil without the incorrect and annoying meme ""Without oil to..."?

We are discussing peak oil. Zero producible oil is three or more decades past when oil peaks. So while we have to get off oil, it is not the case that the day oil peaks we have zero for fertilizer or trucking or whatever. Since it may peak soon (or may have peaked already for that matter) we need to cut as soon as possible. But the "without oil" meme implies we have to drop to zero tomorrow - which would be nice, is not possible without horrible consequences. What we have to do soon is put in place a phaseout, something we need to do for global warming purposes in any case.

Beer will always exist.  Even if I have to harvest the barley myself.

The strange thing is, beer might be cheaper without oil.  I wonder how much of beer's price is embodied in lugging glass bottles around the world.  Raw materials for brewing my own is around $0.25 a bottle (even from extract - straight from barley would be much cheaper).

Great article Sharon and yes, the hippies were right on just about everything.

that was the funniest damn thing i've read all day sharon.  brilliant!  you might want to add canada to your invasion list though, the natives up here are getting restless.

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...my hair went down past my shoulders, I paid $60 per month for a "room" in a hippie house, and I went to grateful dead concerts while living in Berkeley.  Some of us really were DFH's, some of us weren't...and I was right about everything I thought back then.

Ah, it's always a good thing to display a sense of humour.  Sharon covers the dunces of the world without malice, just a nice little giggle that says so much more than "Smarten up, you numbskull!"  

Peak Oil, unfortunately, is probably already here, or looming over us on history's horizon.  We can't go back with Grandpa Simpson and the Aging Hippie,  Paris should look toward funding new energy sources in order to compete with Angelina, and Bush has to go in November whether he wants to or not (thank goodness).  But our future is not going to be bright and shining so we might as well laugh as we go whistling past the graveyard.    

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The solution you offer: More beer good. Beer comes from oil. Must. Save. Beer.

Be careful with Homer Simpson, knowin' him, he'll see this and then want to support increased drillin' when Mayor Quimby tells him it'll produce more oil...and thus more beer! ;)

it gives me that warm feeling i'm sending some speculator's kid to a solid gold college with diamond windows and dom perignon drinking fountains.

No oil means no more beer -- ever.

Not true. Beer has been brewed since the time of the Egyptians. I agree with Matt G: there will always be beer.

These are only my personal opinions.

If they were effective, though, then why is the US pretty much ruled by people that are almost completely antithetical to everything that they stand for, and more or less reverse every single ounce of hard-worked progress with the stroke of a pen?

I understand how you could explain it to Homer Simpson but Paris? Surely she has a minus IQ score so no matter how you put it she would just be thinking about shoes and nodding her head!

Power to the people.  We were right and we still are.  Hehey.

My ponytail isn't gray yet.  But I'm very clean.

Peak oil, yes, it's mainly a fantasy, but it's a good fantasy.  It's moving things around to GHG disaster cure.  Without it no one would listen to any of our greenery.

Thank you OPEC, thank you detroit gas guzzler makers, thank you darth cheney, thank you exxonmob, thank you oil analysts, thank you hedge funds,thank you for screwing yourselves.  And helping us win.

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exactly why (coupled with local preferences) most beer is brewed somewhat locally. SABMiller talks about it on their website.

I was wasting precious minutes scrolling back through the (hilarious and useful)post to see what DFH was!  Reminds me of when I was at a 2002 protest in Colorado Springs when the Cheneys were there for a reunion at my college (Laura is an alumnus):  the pro-Bush/Cheney folks were yelling, "Go home and smoke some dope, ya aging hippie!"  Much to my surprise and chagrin, I realized this was aimed at me- the only white-haired person on the Get-Out-Of-Vietnam... oh, wait...deja vu all over again... Side of the Street.
Thanks, Sharon- my father daily explains climate change and peak oil to his fellow "inmates" at his assisted living- he'll love this...

An ounce of practice is worth twenty thousand tons of big talk. -Vivekananda

LOL, believe it or not, I do know that we aren't running out of oil, and that beer can be made without it ;-).

Sharon

Sharon, with dirt under her fingernails.

Is this the most convincingly positive peak oil piece ever?

A beautifully written gem.