[Vision2020] Building and development planning

[Tbertruss at aol.com]

Brad et. al.

Thanks for the link to the article about how Willits, California is 
addressing the energy crisis (and other associated issues), which I think should not be 
viewed as something that will happen in the future, but is happening right 
now.

Vision2020 gets numerous complaints about content, but often there are 
critical issues that are addressed on this list that garner scant attention.  Sorry 
I missed your previous post on this issue where you first presented this link.

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/08.10.05/willits-0532.html

Some may think depletion of fossil fuels is not a "local" issue, but if any 
issue is both local and global at once, it is this one!  Unless you are living 
in a culture unplugged from the critical need for fossil fuels.

I wonder when the hoarding of gas, bought at what will be assumed to be lower 
prices and easier availability, will start to become more common?

We can debate when this will happen, but that it will happen is not 
debatable!  Well, that is, unless the USA starts a "Manhattan Project" type of effort 
to both save existing fossil fuel resources as much as possible, and then start 
transitioning aggressively to other energy sources and technology.  People 
can point to the development of new energy sources and more efficient 
technology, but the facts are that the US and global consumption of fossil fuels, in a 
pattern that creates continuing dependence on these fossil fuels for economic 
viability, continues to increase.

When we see an actual leveling or a reduction in fossil fuel consumption, 
then we will know the problem is really being addressed!

The free market conservatives who think the marketplace will solve these 
problems are ignoring that the marketplace does not focus on the costs of business 
as usual (continuing squandering of fossil fuels) fifty years in the future 
(or whenever the fossil fuel crisis hits hard) in the quarterly reports given 
to stockholders, when we will see the impact of the lack of sufficient planning 
now occurring for the end of the age of cheap oil.

Ted Moffett
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