"Energy stocks... The only way a human is going to make any money."

Toilets are replumbed for organic farming
America finds being fat gives you a better life expectancy
Nuclear is off the blacklist

While the ten items are funny, the truth is that the world will be using
many different fuels by 2030. There will be a realignment of nations, and technology will eliminate much of the
problem of Peak Oil. In fact, Peak Oil will be a paragraph in history.

That is a date when the Arab Emirates, decide that in order to maintain the price for oil they want; firm production quotas in their countries will be set; to not allow any more oil to be produced, so that the price will be stable at what they want. It's that simple!

I think life as we know it will be gone. Everyting I can think of has oil in it. And I mean everything.

The Middle East will become more violent then ever before, they will use nuclear capabilites to try and take over the other countries who came up with alternative resources that would not work in their region, they where abundant in oil, but it is a product of the past as useless as the sand they live in while the rest of the world converts to over to new resources and thrive on the economic markets.

By 2030 the Messiah will return and it will not matter anyway, he will defeat the flase one world leader who will appear to solve this problem, but will betray everyone in the end, bottom line do not worry about it, worry about following Christ, he is the only one who can fix this mess!

1. People who rely on petroleum based drugs will find out what life is like without the drugs.

For all who thing not having fuel for a vehicle is the worst thing that can happen, tehre are worse faiths.

Safeway will return to being a neighborhood grocery, having watched box stores and chain stores nationwide sink in red ink overnight when shoppers are no longer able to drive miles to visit them, malls will turn into cheap daycare centers and the community zoning laws that were changed by greedy oilheads in the mid to late 20th century will revert to erase the nightmare of suburbia, a creation of the infernal combustion engine.

In the year 2525 if man is still alive...if women can survive...we will find!!!

Exxon-Mobil CEO and US Pro-Consul of Mesopotamia is assassinated in Mecca

Finally, reality has overtaken us. Although the price is only a supply-and-demand consequence, the reality is that the oil-dependent western world plus Japan and eastern (China, India, et al) developing economies, must, not march, but run for their economic welfare or survival, finding alternative energy sources. I am short in saying “alternative”. There is the very much here-and-viable nuclear alternative. Whether greens and sceptics like or not, the developed and developing economies must make use of all options.

Then you have the other pressing issue, Climate Change. The world has to get its butt moving and fast. Efficiency, saving, pedalling and everything possible has to come into the picture. It goes all the way to modifying the way we perform our daily errands. To work, shopping, going for vacation rides, you name it. It is a change of culture.

As all deep transformations, neither the oil-thirst, change to alternatives, climate change correction, or change of culture, will take place in one or two years. My guess is five to ten years for the appropriate, required combination to start taking hold. Meanwhile the whole world has to learn to live with and adapt to change. In conclusion, I think it is a transition marking the divide between the end and beginning of two eras.

1. Boeing and the car manufacturing companies go bust, and millions of shareholders have to light their homes burning worthless scrip. (I'm going to invest in a horse breeding ranch!)

Neo-Serfdom. A new form of feudalism will emerge, with states run by the oligarchs that will emerge after the collapse of the global economy.

Mad Max !!

Cheap...30 year old mule, still able to pull buggy, at a great low price,$20,300.00.

10 Al Gore recycles his fuel guzzeling airplane, buys a hot air Balloon to replace it and states "This is great transportation that doesn't use oil. You can go a long way on just hot air". (of which he has an ample supply.

In 2030 the American public will be just as unaware of issues impacting their lives as they are today!

1.... Drum roll please

That's ok, we'll be living on mars by then!

In true david letterman style

Mother in laws start moving in with distant families, it gets to expensive to travel or visit. Not!!!

Board the Mag-Lev Underground Trains world-wide / board and fly to world-wide destinations on US-made Flying Saucers,{Big US Government Secret}No kidding.

The Number 1 solution in 2030.
Who needs oil anyway, we can alawys Astral travel.

In a stunning announcement Harley Davidson and Schwinn announce a joint effort to provide a new 15 speed bicycle with a baseball card on the spokes turned for that special Harley sound.

If we do not change our political system not only will we be out oil. We will have no jobs, no homes no land.

All comments below can or will be realities.

Thank You Keith Keep up the good work.

Thank you all readers great minds always think alike. I hope we will all be together soon to provise solution to a non stop energy chrisis.

soylent oil is people!

In 2030, landfill mining will be BIG business. One [wasteful] generation's junk will prove to be another's treasure.

We are heavy fighters Keith. All best for Coaches Team. Good support horrible risk...

It will get so cold lawyers will have to put their hands into their own pockets for a change!

In-car conception will plummet!

US forces Canada to merge the 2 countries while accepting to use CDN $ as a concession

In 2030, a Canadian-Russian joint venture water adventure park opens in the Arctic Ocean. It becomes a most popular vacation destination for those who have a way to get there. ( . . . by sailboat?)

Solar and nuclear power will thrive.

Hello Keith,
Never commented before, thought I'd weigh in anyhow. (I enjoy your articles, so keep up the good work). Rather than supply a couple of backhanded comments on the subject, i thought i'd throw the unsightly facts on the table. After exhausting research (disclaimer - we are in the energy business and drill oil and gas wells), there are no current available large-scale alternatives for gasoline. Energy transportation, storage, and distribution infrastructure alone makes them something in the distant future, so we are going to have to get by on the fossil fuels for the next 25 years (yes we need to keep spending on the other potential alternatives). There are only 2 fuels that can replace some of the dirty gasoline that we use. Ethanol, which is not a very good choice for many reasons, and methanol, which is an excellent choice for many reasons. If the general public were told the facts, methanol would clearly be the alternative fuel of choice. The breakdown as to how and why is too lengthy to address in this forum. However, the general public will likely start to realize the ethanol shortfalls in the next few years, and methanol will surely become the alternative blending fuel of choice - again, there are no others. And there are also no viable energy sources to replace our transportation fuel usage in the near future. Rarely can we rely on someone to give them the straight facts when it comes to energy (too many politics and people not willing to do their homework). However, not only will methanol become the primary blending fuel - replacing ethanol as time goes by, but it stands to be in a position to be the "primary fuel" that gasoline currently has a strangle-hold on. Infrastructurally speaking, there is very little change needed with methanol, which is currently derived from coal and natural gas - the most abundant resources on the planet. Technology developments that are now available can make this fuel virtually emissions free, at a cost so low it's unbelievable. Perhaps yourself and any readers will position themselves in front of the change that is going to happen. At least i feel i have done my part in providing the truth (and the direction) to which energy WILL be headed.

Best of luck.

In the year 2030 nuclear infusion has made it debut into the car industry combining with the hybrid. Nuclear cells will be sold and placed in the engine for fuel. It will also charge the batteries like the hybrid.

Congress remains at an impass on the 12th day of a marathon session, struggling to craft ways to tax sunshine, wind and geothermal resources, ever since oil tax revenues completely dried up last year. Meanwhile, US and Russian soldiers are ready to do battle, ever since Russia purportedly planted their flag on the sun, declaring it their turf and demanding insolation royalties.

Facing tough times and precipitous decline in herd revenues, the Elders of the ANWR caribou vote to open a casino. (Fortunately, it seems to be getting getting a little warmer each year.)

Once the price of fuel makes trucking too expensive, Americans will start dying because your local grocery store only has 3-4 days of food on the shelves! Those with gardens will survive. Food from the Big Valley will be sent to San Fran and LA by national guard convoys. But unless you are growing your own...not a pretty picture!
And gas here in the Sierra foothills is now $3.25 - fast approaching our all time high of $3.49 last summer. We'll see $4 within a year I think.

That horse I bought to keep the grass down is looking VERY good right now! I wonder if they can be trained to carry someone on their back?

bicycles become hybrid. When you become tired from peddiling we will have an alternative energy solution that can harness all the hot air from the empty promises of polititions and convert it to energy that will propell your bike along another 20 miles before between their next on camera postering.

Do you really believe that you are spreading democracy - dumb dumb dumb

Do you agree with the professionals such as Richard Duncan and Walter Youngquist that peak oil and the subsequent decline in oil output per unit of world population will occasion mass starvation and a decline in world population to around 2 billion within this century? If so, when is the general investment community going to wake up and realize this?

I receive a lot of investment newsletters.
Today it seems there are two pre-dominant topics on Oil !
1. "We're about to run out of oil !!
2. We just made the "Find of the Century" of unlimited oil !!

Both sound like BS !!
One real question, please - -
Why are we allowing Day Traders to set the price of Oil ??
This fictitious price has nothing to do with the cost to produce a barrel of oil !!

By eating less and walking more, America is no longer an over weight nation, thank you Greenspan.

Mommies start having canning jar parties to replace the former tupperware li while cocoa butter replaces avon.

We will elect a 49 year old Amish man from Pennsylvania as our 46th president.

2 words:

Invade Canada!

In 2030 Barack Obama will stand at Hilliary's grave and pronounce: Mission Accomplished!

1. 50 per cent of office workers become teleworkers from home.
2. 50 percent of electricity from utilities comes from nuclear reaction.
3. 50 per cent of automotives/trucks are powered by NGV
4. crude oil prices increase by 25 pct a year every year from january 2007.
5. transport becomes progressively intelligent and it starts in Japan starting with highways that are fitted out guidance sensors so that cars with compatible equipment just get into a specially designated lane and the Intelligent traffic guidance system takes over. the driver surrenders most controls, but like a train driver, is on standby.
By 2030, I'll be 80, god willing.

... inner cities explode ... .

America becomes a top-rate third world country.

2030: The jihadist run out of money.

In 2030, Amish culture is leading our "high technology" revolution into the 22nd century and beyond!

Upon the reintroduction of horses as the main form of transport in the USA, Ford lead the dealers stakes with their 2030 Mustang range and both the President and the Prostitutes collective are both heard saying "There's nothing like a good ride to start your day"

In 2030 the US will not have a problem with obesity in the population.

The toll from mishandling hydrogen
will exceed the highway accident toll.

Consider what woud happen if citizens - common ordinary citizens, voluntarily reduced their maximum speed to 55 mph. Also this time all aircraft reduced maximum airspeed 20%, trains and shipping too. This top 20% of excess uses approximately 40% of the fuel. A 40 % drop in demand would cripple OPEC and bring the American economy back into control. It would allow us to have time to develop alternatives that would increase in investment value exponentially.

In 2030 there are no more obese persons in America. The average 50 metre sprint is now done in 4.3 seconds.

#1 - In 2030............The Republicans will recind their 100% tax write-off's on S.U.V.'s that weigh over 6,000 lbs.

Reading your free newsletter inspired me to send the following to my friends and family:

Subject: Enjoy "cheap" gas while you can!

Believe it or not, compared to the price of crude oil, gasoline is cheaper than it ought to be.

Up to a year ago, the price of gas closely tracked the price of crude. This year things got really "hinky". For most of the summer gas prices were higher than they "should" have been, and now they are much lower. As crude oil is not likely to get much cheaper, gas will have to go up quickly to catch up.

Here in Grand Rapids, MI gas ranges from $2.72/gal - $2.99/gal. I saw one station that was $2.78/gal yesterday and is $2.99/gal today. To match historical trends, gas should be about $3.32/gal.

I figured this out from this chart:

http://www.grandrapidsgasprices.com/retail_price_chart.aspx

In the "Customize Price Charts" section below the chart, in Area 1 select your city or state, and in Area 2, just to help you feel grateful, select Canada Average. Select a Time Period of 1 year. Check the box "Show Crude Oil Price" and Create Chart. You should see your local gas price tracking crude closely on the left. On the right, the crude oil line is near $3.32/gal (gasoline equivalent), the local price is lower and Canada's is higher. The price of gas used to closely track the price of crude (try a time period of 2 years) so it will probably go up soon to match again.

Higher gas prices are headed our way, so enjoy it while you can!

It's 3am and I've just left a lifelong friend now informed about PO. He's very well educated so he understood quite quickly what I was on about. The world will be changing, in my opinion, in the next year and everyone will be shocked by it and no longer totally uninformed as my friend was until tonight. I'll say no more and hope that we all find a soft route through to our future.

Big cities will be a thing of the past. Most people will work and play in their own neighborhood. After all we have great space & communications! Rail will be back in style for mass movement of goods, and people when they want to go afar. Automation will require fewer workers to go to their jobs. Damned fewer road cars!

Due to peak oil in 2030, I've got to use spit as a lubricant, like when I was a kid!

my wife collects horses. She may be smarter than I thought. I grow and sell hay. By 2030 she'll have more than a 100 horses. Think maybe she's on the right track?

OPEC will try to convert oil to water,promote it, drink it and kill off 100M of
their bretheran and the World will rejoice

Road Warriors will no longer be a fiction movie, it will be the real deal!

DicK Cheney changes his name to Don Quixote.

worthwhile reading, although the reality is the internal combustion engine is way too efficient to ever shelf, whether it be fuel made from corn, switchgrass, etc... there will be a decades long lapse before the demise of the i.c.e. engine. smart money would open eyes to conversion companies that will create new delivery systems needed to run current engines on different fuel sources, ( look at impco, nolffs, etc...) we can power our engines without arab oil, after the break, it will be cool. just my 2 cents, and my hopes as i am employed as an industrial equipment technician, good luck all.

4-Cylinder Engines will be sold as flower pots at Wal-Mart featuring 4 growing spaces.

6-Cylinder Engines will be sold as "premium" flower pots featuring an in-line version.

8-Cylinder+ Engines will be sold at Sams Club / Costco as the "Family" sized flower pot featuring flower spaces for your entire family + friends + pets.

Best of all the soil in these engines over time becomes iron-enriched :)

4-Cylinder Engines will be sold as flower pots at Wal-Mart featuring 4 growing spaces.

6-Cylinder Engines will be sold as "premium" flower pots featuring an in-line version.

8-Cylinder+ Engines will be sold at Sams Club / Costco as the "Family" sized flower pot featuring flower spaces for your entire family + friends + pets.

Best of all the soil in these engines over time becomes iron-enriched :)

In 2030 - most of the homes will have solar powered roof tiles.

In 2030, we'll all be living in caves because its too hot outside due to climate change...and to save energy.

Require at least 1 year of classes for each of the following Four languages for a high school diploma anywhere in the United Sates: Russian, Chinesse, Arabic and Norweigan.

In 2030, bootleggers will break down Vaseline petroleum jelly into its components to recover the petroleum element. Synthetic motor oil will be made from corn. Homeowners will have their own corn growing in their backyards, while apartment dwellers will grow their own corn in boxes on their window sills.

Helium 3 will be our energy source from the Moon ..... this is why China, India, US, etc are racing back to the moon etc etc .... fusion, it is safe with new technology, etc... regards

Ernergy wars

By 2030.....,cars will be out of fashion, we'll be shouting "Beam me up , spotty" and all of us will have portable nuclear devices to generate electricity :)

Subliminally, in a manner only Darwin could predict, the Texan pronunciation of "Ohl" changes to "Oh hell"

In 2030 the US will finally learn why the rest of the world has resented it for so long - consider the '07 $11 a gallon for fuel in Europe, when US continues to blow fuel out the exhaust pipes of innefficient vehicles. Try driving smaller cars nitwits! And stop electing presidents who cannot read let alone think beyond the narrow interests of US Oil and Detroit.
The world just cannot afford US domestic policies.

I was discussing this with a friend and we both decided that we are a pretty wasteful bunch and that recycling will be part of the future and that the oil and gas reserves will be saved for more useful items rather than burning to raise electricity or burning in cars etc.

The real interesting thing to note is that there is a race between Air New Zealand down under and Richard Branson's Virgin as to who will be the first to fly their 747's on bio-jet fuel

The brand new Airbus A380 is retrofitted to be a battery for hens/permaculture greenhouse/social housing.

Richard Branson uses the last of the worlds oil to blast the Virgin brand into space, forever...

Nancy Sinatra proved to be a soothsayer. These boots ARE made for walking.

NO 1

supermarket trolleys carrying fewer than 5 persons are banned from the Beltway.

In plenary session the United Nations has agreed a motion by the Security Council to ban the use of fossil fuel and substitutes in future conflicts. This will not only reduce the demand for such resources but also encourage fitness programmes and reduce obesity. The motion was carried unanimously except that certain Middle East countries abstained.

Iraq is 'old war'.
You missed out the 'new wars' in your listing

NO 1

supermarket trolleys carrying fewer than 5 persons are banned from the Beltway.

1. In 2030, ...we will be working four jobs in order to pay the taxes for our carbon foot print. you know, for breathing and being a threat to the enviroment!

In 2030 I will have saved enough money to stop working full time, and will be able to retire, and will be 84. The social security letter sent out that year will tell me I only have to work until I am 95 to receive full retirement benefits. There will be a land-fill site on the moon. 50% of energy needs will come from nuclear power plants, ocean generated energy will supply 25%, and the balance will come from solar and wind and coal gasification.

Energy and Capital is renamed "Capital".

if we just have some common sense we don't have to destroy our country to get there.

1. Trains make a rebirth as major transportation systems
2. Nuclear energy becomes a real option for america
3. new solor technology turns all homes and office building into solar collectors and eliminates use of coal fired plants
4. New insu technology turns the rocky mountains into the new saudi arabia
5. Wind and wave power are begun to be used on a greater scale
6. cafe standards that make a difference are enacted.
7. hybrid cars become the standard not the exception for the american car owner
8. we quit electing lawyers and start electing some real people for a change
9. Or we all begin to learn to speak chinese and just give up being a nation.

dear keith, re peak oil. why is everybody buying the new 380 jet if oil is going to be 300 a barrel or running out. I dont' get it!
ron from Australia.

People will look up one morning and ask themselves "since when did the sky turn blue?"

When we finally run out of (cheap) oil...
it won't really matter, because by then we will be addicted to some other substance (or a combination of many alternatives).
P.S.: there's more to life than just "peak oil", dudes! By focusing so narrowly on PO, you are missing out on the real story (China overtakes USA in table tennis, GNP, and pollutants output!)
Peak oil, peak oil, peak oil, peak oil. There, now are you happy?

All the oil sheiks and Hugo Chavez are seen pushing Wal-Mart shopping carts down the street with all their possessions asking each other "what happened?"

Candle Wax traded on futures exchange.

In 2030 the Houston Nuclear defeated the San Diego Solar in the SuperBowl before the first 101,000 fans to bicycle to the stadium.

Railroad lines converted to hiking trails in the 1980's will be re-converted to railroad lines. Wood will replace natural gas/fuel oil for heating homes.

Im too tired to come upa with any paris Hillton joke in the 2030 context... :(

But to prove that the endtimes are here i give you this Chanel/lagerfeldt designed bike for $10 000+.
http://www.e24.se/dynamiskt/dyrkultur/did_17361497.asp

In 2030, Congress sets aside Interstate 95 as the 'Grande Bicycle Path'. The heads of the Big Three Bicycle Makers are there for the occasion.

In 2030, President Chelsea Clinton will go way beyond her wacko mom and fully open America's borders to any and all, declaring that it takes a village to solve America's energy problems.

In 2030 the United States of North America will announce that the oil extraction operation in our north-western states is reaching peak output as defined by the point at which no living creature can survive within a 1,000 mile radius without life support from our "don't worry about it" air-replacement system from Haliburton.

Bread hits $22 a loaf as almost all our wheat production is diverted to ethanol.

By 2030, all SUVs will have been converted to affordable housing.

Borders will be closed. The US will have taken over Canada. Famine and disease will be rampant world-wide as "every man (country) for himself" mentality prevails. There will only be 2 classes in Americanada, the very rich and the very poor. Air travel will be limited to the military and politicians and finally. Bill Gates will have transferred his spiritual being into a massively distributed multiplexed autonomic neuron AI system having bought the company that created it.

Chavez will still be President of Venezuela even though total crude production is 500 b/d because the price of oil is at least $250/bbl.

Mad Max wins the presidency by a landslide.

NEWS FLASH: Gun sales escalate 1000%.

Story: Higher than usual gun sales, and corresponding sales of body armour have been taking place.

The explanation seems to be that ordinary citizens are concerned about making it home safely with their rationed supplies from the inner city distribution centers.

Ever since the "BIG ENERGY CRUNCH" of 2025, food, water, and other supplies have been distributed from centralized urban locations due to the lack of fuel allocations to the commercial trucking industry.

Some suburbs are between 25 and 30 miles from distribution centers and the National Guard has been unable to stop highway bandits and looting of distribution centers.

In 2030, the human race will be #1 on the exstinction list, as George Carlin says "mother earth cleans itself every 200,000 yrs, and the human race is helping in so many ways"

1. In 2030, ... a statue of GW Bush waving from atop a Gold Plated 2002 model Cadillac Escalade is erected by Hizbullah in Jerusalem... by the reigning Khalif .. Osama Bin Ladin II... Inscribed in Arabic below the statue is the phrase...

Submit-it's FREE!

The fragrant odor of horse poop will once again fill the city streets.

In 2030, China goes 100% nuclear and as the Only Superpower dominates the world

Algore announces his new plan to capture the methane gases released by the worlds cattle herds and convert it into clean burning fuel for the worlds automobiles, thereby assuring himself another Nobel Prize, this time for science.

all sports will be played during the day, so we can save electricity. that's the way it should be done. 24-hour supermarkets will close at 9pm. 24 hour fast food places also will close at 9pm.

in 2030...all land transportation will be by electric vehicles. In cities, half of all streets will be designated for pedestrian traffic or restricted to bycycles or very small vehicles. Renewable energy resources will be the dominate form of energy production world wide. Local economies will grow and food will be the predominate commodity world wide.

The 32 billion barrels of Utah oil sands will still be producing , and the Demoncrats still won't allow the drilling of anwar , but they have finally dropped their opposition to new nuclear generation facilities as they all drive electric cars anyway . That 2 trillion barrels of oil shale is starting to look pretty good !

the price of a barrel of oil hit a new record..... 1500 RENMINBI.

Keith Kohl makes 4,000% for his readers by recommending start-up company which converts car chasis to horsecarts.

1.Federal Government will be impotent and bankrupt.
2.Major cities will be controlled by crime.
3.Starvation and population contraction will be extreme.
4.Food production will be local.
5.Horses, mules, and oxen will be in high demand and short supply.
6.The legal system will be determined locally and vary greatly.
7.Monitary system will be determined locally and vary greatly
8.Life will be hard; but happier.

Keith Kohl makes 4,000% for his readers by recommending start-up company which converts car chasis to horsecarts.

In desperation the US will finally enact its first ever mass transportation bill.

George Bush will write from his home in the semi-desert area of northern Paraquay saying, "What's y'all's problem? Plenty of solar power here to run my compound - including my massive security system!"

In 2030, after years of confict, destruction, social upheavel, famines, pestilence, and economic disaster, the survivors of the tribulation learn to live from the land and regain a lost knowledge. Man's greatest mistake has come to a convulsive end, and he is visited by powers that lead him into a new age of peace and happiness.

It will become legal to take the direct approach to the idiots who leave their balcony doors wide open and then ask the apartment super to turn up the furnace. The direct approach is to throw the idiots out the open door, after checking for traffic on the sidewalk below.

Keith Kohl makes 4,000% for his readers by recommending start-up company which converts car chasis to horsecarts.

Remember when we could just hop in the car an drag Main Street, for no good reason, other than to see what's going on and be seen. Boy, were those great days.

# 1 - No one will be 'cornfused'about ethanol anymore.

Major issues can only be faced by the Town Hall System where employees carry out the majority vote. Voting by email is essential.
Increasing energy cost will coerce society to curb urban sprawl caused by Ghettoizers---the enemy of society---will be put out of business.

The bicycle will be crowned the "New King of Transportation"

The genocide in Iraq & Iran is finished and oil is at $20 - $20 a drop.

I was with CAB during the 1973--1980 period and was involved with airline fuel problems. I enjoy your messages.
We will have insurrection when fuel becomes scarse, just like a national food/water problem. Remember the EXON case about pricing 1975--1985? Keep up the info. THANKS

IDIOTS! there is NO Peak Oil! It is a
Zionist Plot in order to get to $100 and $200/bbl Oil. YOU ARE THE PRIMARY PROPAGANDISTS for this deception. Stop It and check your information. the gulf Oil wells are refilling from deeper pools of oil. Oil is NOT a fossil fuel. Russia is hitting oil at 17,000' and hitting plenty of it.Do you really want nuclear war so badly you will lie to get it?

Bikes are sold with LoJack......

American people lose weight since they now walk more

Al-Qaeda issues warning, "Don't touch our camels"

In 2030, the water wars begin.

the lax gun laws it turns out, weren't such a good idea

water will have to be rationed

because it is be used for hydogen powered vehicles

We will still be using oil products, paying carbon taxes and investing in the new farmland territories opening up in Northern Canada. The boneheads that were thinking that mankind was the cause of (or could stop) global warming have now moved on to establishing a DNA tax based on your ancestry. Caucasians will be taxed at 95%, every one else gets a check.

In 2030-2037, a measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny.

In 2030 Mel Gibson directs the next Max Max Road Warrior movie, titled 'Road Warrior 3: Solar Dome'. The feature film uses state of the art solar powered assault vehicles to defeat rouge Al Qaeda factions in Iraq.

Sorry it's not funny, but the fact that it takes 10 calories of cheap oil to product 1 calorie of food will continue pushing the prices up and the quantities of food down, to the point that world population begins to shrink back to it's solar-sustainable level of 1 to 2 billion, if we haven't damaged the Earth's basic system operation too much. It won't be bloodless, fair, or managable, but it will happen.

1. In 2030, ...the dollar will be worth 2 gumbo beans.

Every politician will be required to submit to a lie detector test after every public statement that they utter!

1. In 2030...few people will be safe in their homes as gangs comprised of the "the good, the bad and the ugly" roam the streets and countrysides raiding houses, stores, anything and anyone in search of high priced, scarce food, clothing and shelter. Heavily defended "communities" seek to protect the few who can afford it, ie those who acted years earlier on the advice of Kohl et al.

The lIBERAL DEMOCRATS WILL SAY, HMMM MAYBE OUR BRAND OF SOCIALISM IS REALLY LIKE COMMUNISM. THE GOVERMENT CAN SOLVE EVERYTHING.

By 2030 we will have established a Carbonless Electric Economy

So we won’t need to worry about items 2-10.

Dave Spicer

In 2030: Unless we have had the second coming, we will all eat from our own gardens while truck loads of fuel derivatives are hi-jacked by Mad-Max style convoys of crazed ex-oil tycoons who still believe they are about to make that next really big oil discovery.

Ther's a renewed interest in HORSE-POWER.