Comments on: Peak oil, peak house?

By: Hans Jacobs

Hans Jacobs — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:47:16 +0000

Maybe…..But I don’t think it would help that much if we all lived in high rises in the city. We’ve been here before, in the ’70s, and it didn’t affect demand for houses in the suburbs much then either.
Demand for gasoline is inelastic, but only in the short term. In the longer term, people will switch to smaller cars. That’s what happened in the ’70s and caused all the refinery closures (remember Texaco Port Credit; Gulf Clarkson; Shell Oakville; and Petrocan Oakville?) in this area. (It also provided a great opportunity to increase market share for Japanese automakers who had small, fuel efficient cars available when the Big 3 did not.)
I think what will happen instead of a demise of suburbs (where would all the residents move to, anyway?) is that people will find cheaper transportation alternatives.
What we need most now is some real government leadership (OK, that’s an oxymoron) to stop the population growth in the GTA, and let’s add some kind of significant tax for inefficient vehicles, the way that cars with bigger engines used to cost more to license in the 1950s.

By: OTT ERNST

OTT ERNST — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:44:08 +0000

First, global warming comes and goes, it all depends on the cyclic position the earth finds itself visa vie the sun
Second, the earth is a living planet
it turns and twists, it breathes winds,
tornedos,huricanes,and cylclones; trans-
porting bad air into good air by washing it through rain, snow and the
leafs of trees. 3/4 of our planet is occupied by water, cooled by the two
polars, south and north to make sure we
do not burn up walking on earth. Molden lava below the crust of earth does need vending once in awhile and that causes
volcanos and earth-quakes. Sometimes they create new landscapes,such as Hawaii and others.
To think, that we little ants of humans could destroy the earth in any
way permanently is politically motivated by the EPA, funded secretly
by the Opec-Cartel who planned that we and the rest of the industrial nations
be dependend to them through their oil, their only means of survival. End of that story.
Solution: We have more untapped energy
below OUR NATION, than Opec and other oil producers combined and I am not talking about bio-fuels, we can buy us time to develop more powerful and intelligent energy for our future.
That is my opinion, thanks for reading.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:10:57 +0000

This is the best assessment I’ve ever seen from a politician. I think you may be one of the few Canadian politicians that understands this issue Garth. Please work to educate your fellow MPs.