Sorry to deviate from the above thread, but I read the news headlines at yahoo.com's home page daily, and this one posted this morning is a first:

Fossil Fuels Set to Become Relics, Says Research Group

Quote: "Energy markets are about to experience a seismic shift," Christopher Flavin, president of the Washington, D.C.-based Worldwatch Institute, said in a speech to oil executives and energy ministers in Johannesburg, South Africa, site of the 18th World Petroleum Congress. "The question for oil executives is whether you're in the oil business or the energy business."

The article paints a rosy picture of renewable energies, but one thing is clear: Peak oil awareness is entering the mainstream. We're still not being told the truth, tho, about the shock it'll mean for our society...

Quick update: Before you can blink, the fossil-fuels-as-relics story is gone from yahoo.com's home page, but...

It is now their Most Popular Story (in terms of # of times e-mailed)