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19 comments on Maribyrnong City Council Peak Oil Contingency Plan
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AusDarren, Tassie Tiger I'm another refugee from the mainland been here five years living near Mt Field. I don't know about drying out we had 1000 mm of rain June-July-August.
I sent an email to my local council (Central Highlands) last week pointing out they assume we would all have cars and plenty of fuel in years to come. No reply but I guess it's there for reference as in 'I pointed this out way back in 2009'.
When you live on back roads it's scary how car dependent you are. To test the alternative I plan to cycle or motorbike 3km to the nearest bitumen road to take the 6.50 am college bus into Hobart suburbs, then take the metro bus into the CBD. I'll do enough shopping to fill a small backpack then return mid afternoon. They reckon it was island inbreeding that really caused the extinction of the Tasmanian Tiger, not hunting. Without cars we could be headed the same way.
Be sure to send us a few words about your travel experiment Boof so we can include it as a guest post on TOD! Take a picture too :-) Sounds like fun..
And I was also born in Tassie and Hobart is a place I'd love to live in again.
I think there are some people (educated citizens of TOD excluded) who plan their post-peak self sufficiency move to the country without realising just how car dependent you can be when you are a long way on dirt roads from the nearest shop. You have to be REALLY committed to being self-sufficient or it can be a worse outcome. I'd rather live close or even in a nice size rural town - one with some nice engineering jobs and plenty of rain would be perfect!
Hello,
Another Tasmanian moving back from the mainland
Just in the process of buying a property down South near Ida Bay.
Best wishes for the future
Whaddayaknow, here's something I helped dig up just a few kilometres from Ida Bay.
Hello Boof,
Good to hear from you
Thanks for the picture bit unfortunately I can't make out what it is?