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Originally Posted by J-Town Fan 1988
That's the problem though. Mass transport is only viable if everyone lives in a metropolitan area. So it's either keep using oil because there's nothing else that is as efficient as it, or everyone lives in a megacity ala Tokyo.
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Kansas City is a metropolitan area, we don't have mass transit. Plus there are LOTS of of non oil alternatives like Solar, Wind, Wave (not in Kansas) and Geothermal that if harnessed correctly, could repower themselves and actually work in smaller venues if enough resouces (billions) were spent.
I know it's not gonna happen here, or most anywhere else anytime soon. And I also know the time, money and manpower would be extraordinary in order to do it, but it CAN be done. Mankind is smart, look what we've done. What was considered impossible 100 years ago is now a part of everyday life - cell phone signals in Siberia, satellites, brain surgery, the internet.
I refuse to believe the human race isn't smart enough to learn how to live in a world without oil.