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To the three of you who posted comments to my previous post on peak oil, thank you.  It will be through such dialogue that we will spread the word, while learning form one another.  In fact, as recently as this morning I made connections with a couple of activists and acquired links to new resources that will be useful to me.

A very helpful acquaintance read my previous and suggested that I had failed to answer three key questions that some of you may have had.  So this post will try to rectify that little shortcoming.  The questions are: 1) What is peak oil and what are its implications to my community?  2) What can be done about it?  and 3) Are we approaching peak oil?

So, follow me over the jump and see if my answers are useful to you.  Then post a comment to keep the conversation going.

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Peak Oil - A Woefully Inadequate Intro

A quick search for stories on Washblog containing the words peak oil turned up six hits dating back to May of 2006, only one of which was dated 2008.  Clearly not a hot topic.

Peak Oil is of particular interest to me, along with its equally threatening sibling, global climate change.  I believe it is worthy of deliberation by the great minds that inhabit this blog.  If there are those among you who are not familiar with the issue, well, get with it.  We cannot afford to ignore this issue just because our policy-makers and media mouthpieces do.

This far from comprehensive post will attempt to offer something for everyone, whether new to the topic or obsessed with it as I am.  I will include some of the gloomy bits, but make every effort to end on a hopeful note.  Along the way I will detail some of my efforts in Snohomish County, as they are aimed at finding as many "hopeful notes" as possible here locally.

Follow me below the jump to learn more and join in the conversation on peak oil...