Drill, Baby, Drill (As In, ‘This Time, It Was Just a Drill’)
Don’t go breathing too big a sigh of relief that gas prices have come down so much from their historic peaks this summer: it doesn’t mean another peak (as in Peak Oil) isn’t still on its way. Richard Heinberg, senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute, explains why brilliantly in a commentary titled, “The Dress Rehearsal is Over.”
In other words, this time was just a drill, but next time might not be.
Image credit: Screenshot from “Duck and Cover,” a U.S. government-produced Cold War cautionary film for children, via Wikimedia Commons.
