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This recent set of interviews may shed some light on how aware people in NY City are to Peak Oil:
http://www.kriscan.com/archives/46
..sad..
kris
Nice concept Kris - was that Central Park?
Please send us links to your stuff in the future.
Hi Glen -
Thanks! Where do I send the links?
If you click on my name my email address is there.
Listening to the Kunstler podcast right now. This is a hilarious back and forth. For what it's worth I like your style!
As for NYC - most folks are what I like to say "unconsciously competent" at reducing oil consumption. It's really expensive and inconvenient for most people to even own a car. Raising awareness can only help though...
Keep up the great work.
Haha, that reminds me of a personal story ... about six or eight years ago, my spouse and I were planning a vacation trip to visit Mom on the Cape. Mary had never been to that part of the country, and urged me to sign up for a car when we arranged the flight into Logan. I said "Trust me, we do not want a car."
When we got to Boston, Mary was quickly convinced -- the "Big Dig" was still an open pit. We boarded the bus for the Cape right at the terminal and had a nice vacation, letting the traffic be someone else's problem... Mom had a car we could borrow, but the whole region really has decent public transit.
I've been doing this for a while on an informal basis when working at the library, shopping in town, and once when at a gathering of want-to-be Democratic representatives. In the latter case, only one of the three of them (the youngest) had even the slightest idea of what I was talking about. One of them responded "Pink Oil? Is that some special kind of oil?" When I explained what it was, he responded by saying we had plenty of oil stored in an underground government facility... Ugh. Needless to say, the young guy will get my vote.
I wonder how things would differ if you talked about "oil running out" as opposed to the term "peak oil" which is a bit technical (I bet 50% of the people asked imagined oil from mountains). It'd be fun to collect estimates of when oil is about to run out from people. Probably "in 50 years" would be the most common answer.
BTW bravo for going out and talking to people about this. I normally keep quiet about it with my friends. I figure it's a depressing topic and they won't be able to impact the situation, so why drag down the mood? But it's probably the wrong approach to take.