about $6 / gallon gas
please see:
since 1 euro = 1,3076 USD (google, now)
and 1 gallon = 3,78541178 liter (google again, a bit later then the previous now)
what I pay for gas: $7,6/ gallon
and yet… the economy of Holland still functions (mostly, YMMV, IANAEconomist, etc)
Yet the idea of teaching them to dance is a tad more evocative.
Oh, my word! You’ve found a laudatory review by an amateur critic in an Amazon listing. However did you manage to do that? If that doesn’t clinch your argument, I don’t know what does.
I respect the seriousness of the potential crisis, but most of the Peak Oilers aren’t doing themselves any favors. I think by now, according to Kunstler, everyone was already supposed to have been desperately selling their electronics on Craigslist. (Though to what end I can’t fathom: if the sellers can no longer afford to run these items, surely any would-be buyers can’t either.) Or was it that suburban families were going to be hoofing it to their local big box stores to strip them of their copper. (Again, to what end?)
I’m not familiar with Kunstler except for about 10 mins into his little novel called Made By Hand. I skimmed it and came across some useful ideas (more later) but I can’t abide his style. Back it goes.
I’ll make it quick. I live in a fertile valley with lots of sun, surface water and well-developed agriculture. My town and the 2 other towns that share this valley are now kept alive and prosperous by a three month of flood of free-spending tourists who roll in every summer on cheap oil. That will pass.
The agriculture is here; all that is needed is motorized transport when there is no gas at the pumps. I envision small bio-diesel/ethanol plants and modest fleets of community and private diesel and alcohol-powered vehicles.
I have spent the past 2 months here literally going door to door around town and discovered that many here have considerable awareness of what’s impending. At the moment, these folks are too busy raking in the tourist dollars they will need to survive the winter to sit down and talk. I’m taking the rest of the summer off, myself. Some time after Labor Day.
In response to your post, I’m in favor of bringing in as much of the 21st century a possible. While the dollar is still worth something, set up local wifi and cell networks for example. They wont last forever no matter how many spare batteries you store but they will make the transition to a post-oil economy a lot easier.
It’s ‘maybe the horse will dance’ if you’re going for the “dance” metaphor.
A horse-thief is in jail and as he’s being led out to be executed, he says to the king “Ah, your majesty–my only regret is I don’t have one more year. I am a great animal trainer and my life’s goal was to teach the horse to dance for you.”
The king thinks a minute and grants the prisoner one year to teach the horse to dance.
The jailer leads the thief back to the cell and says “I know for a fact that you’ve never trained an animal in your life. So why did you do that?”
The prisoner replies “A year is a long time, my friend. The king may die. I may escape. And maybe the horse will dance.”
All of that is irrelevant to the fact that the OP is an idiot. I’ll be sure to leave an unnecessary light on somewhere just to cause his blood-pressure to go a bit higher. 
Aside from your motives, I appreciate the light.
What part of “nuclear” is unclear? (Answer: all of it - just in a different order.) When that gasoline-powered generator that you’re using to charge your cell phone runs dry, there will be alternatives. Several of them are already developed techniology, which only haven’t supplanted oil because people are too busy raking in the oil dollars they will need to survive the winter to sit down and implement the alternatives.
If horses can’t dance, then how do you explain the Lipizzaners? Huh? HUH???
And, by the way, the pig quote is not originally posted by you, it’s from Robert Heinlein.
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That would be, here I am. Trust me.
They are not pigs?
I attributed it here. The Daily Show with Trevor Noah - TV Series | Comedy Central US. So?
Last bump.
Is any among you dancing? Don’t whistle if you are.