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Mon Mar 26, 2012, 12:51 PM

closeupready (19,493 posts)

19. That is a stunningly beautiful area, but very remote.

I guess there's a correlation there, but I'm envious of your life.

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36 replies	Author	Time	Post
How Peak Oil Will Shatter Cities Like Merriam, Kansas [View all]	FarCenter	Mar 2012	OP
"shatter" or "slap back into reality" and force sustainable planning?	NYC_SKP	Mar 2012	#1
Drove by I-70 the other day through Kansas	anti-alec	Mar 2012	#2
I think this is true for many places. I've lived in a lot of places in the US and thinking back I	RKP5637	Mar 2012	#3
What would be the difference if the automobile had never been invented?	LiberalFighter	Mar 2012	#14
We need to see a return to walkable communities. nt	Speck Tater	Mar 2012	#4
It would be nice but...	rwsanders	Mar 2012	#9
I was on a city planning commission for 5 or 6 years many decades ago.	Speck Tater	Mar 2012	#11
There should be restrictions on the type of plans used by developers for both business & residential	LiberalFighter	Mar 2012	#15
Jane Jacobs wrote a wonderful book about this,	closeupready	Mar 2012	#17
Higher density suburbs will do fine, even in the post auto age.	hunter	Mar 2012	#5
That would make sense, if the effects of insufferable energy prices were localized.	The Doctor.	Mar 2012	#6
Far more energy is used for travel by people than for transportation of goods	FarCenter	Mar 2012	#7
No reason to discount it. It compounds the problem.	The Doctor.	Mar 2012	#23
It is serious economically, politically and socially -- but the situation is not calamitous	FarCenter	Mar 2012	#24
If all we had to worry about was Peak Oil, I'd agree with you.	GliderGuider	Mar 2012	#28
The impact on the world will be greater than on the US	FarCenter	Mar 2012	#29
That's a very realistic assessment.	GliderGuider	Mar 2012	#30
I think that localization will turn out to be a little different	FarCenter	Mar 2012	#31
That brings a lot of clarity to the localization issue.	GliderGuider	Mar 2012	#32
Merriam will be fine...	The Midway Rebel	Mar 2012	#8
We are very worried also.	Yavapai	Mar 2012	#10
I'm curious...	Javaman	Mar 2012	#12
Choosing to live in the middle of nowhere has consequences.	Johnny Rico	Mar 2012	#13
That is a stunningly beautiful area, but very remote.	closeupready	Mar 2012	#19
Whiskey Tango Bravo are you doing out there and are you a hermit or do you just like rattle snakes?	lonestarnot	Mar 2012	#26
To answer, should any of you come back to look,	Yavapai	Mar 2012	#27
Cool, but you may want to consider a mule team if the gas continues to rise.	lonestarnot	Mar 2012	#33
Not really that big of a deal....many cities will adapt.....and many will disappear	cbdo2007	Mar 2012	#16
I voted with my moving van	Lydia Leftcoast	Mar 2012	#18
Too bad.	Spider Jerusalem	Mar 2012	#20
People will adapt- electric or very high efficiency hybrid	n2doc	Mar 2012	#21
Time to buy an electric car and a solar panel.	diane in sf	Mar 2012	#22
The ant hole will be our future.	lonestarnot	Mar 2012	#25
That seems kinda silly to use Merriam as an example	hfojvt	Mar 2012	#34
i thought merriam was an odd example, as well	bart95	Mar 2012	#35
I did find that to be a law of urban areas though	hfojvt	Mar 2012	#36

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