Peak Oil.

[Skean Dhude]

if governments have not put money into any/or enough alternative systems (and they WONT while we still have the oil companies with their tentacles in government) then we are back to pre-industrial lifestyles.

BP,

This is where it all goes wrong. Government screws up everything it touches. We should let the market sort it out and we will come up with alternatives. Government skews the market by subsidising what IT likes not what we want. So firms do that for the money then when government steps away they collapse. Just as what is going on with electricity now.