It is not true. The sooner these fuels are banned the better it will be for the survivability of this planet.
You keep saying that without oil and gas there will be a die off, while insisting that oil and gas will cease to exist. Meanwhile you do
nothing but worry about oil and gas. All in fact that you are doing is predicting a die-off. This is a useless activity.
Not one person with the "peak oil" fetish - James Kunstler included - has announced an intention to kill themselves to avoid the die-off rush.
It is purely absurd. The chemistry of oil and gas and coal is well understood and the technology for replacing them has been available for decades. We live in the Golden age of chemistry. The main point of insistence really extends to the fact that the external cost of oil and gas and coal are
ignored. The other factor is that people seem to believe that the price of energy should be so low as to allow for orgiastic excess. Witness, for instance, the number of people who cry when oil exceeds $3.00/gallon. I've got news for you. If the external cost of oil were really calculated, it would be so expensive that everyone would find a way to do what is well within the realm of technological feasibility, replace oil.
The price of oil, to my mind, should be tripled, if not quadrupled. I cannot hide my pleasure at the thought that oil will - the bizarre fetishes to the contrary notwithstanding - run out.
To get a measure of the external costs - limiting oneself to
just one odious side effect of the bizarre oil fetish let us say that the war in Iraq costs $100 billion dollars a year. Mind you, I am not talking about the loss of people killed and infrastructure destroyed but am only speaking of the
money spent to provide the weapons and people to commit the murder.
As of this week the United States was importing 12,755,000 barrels of oil per day.
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_wkly_dc_NUS-Z00_mbblpd_w.htmThis annualizes to 4,700,000,000 barrels per year. This means that the
cost of carrying out the act of murder alone adds $21/barrel to the cost. If one adds the cost of climate change, air pollution, water pollution, etc, the matter is much, much, much, much worse.
The question of whether a bunch of moral morons sit around and cry about the fact that oil might become
too expensive is thus on some level, purely
sick. Oil is not too expensive. It is too cheap. Paying the
real price of oil would
quickly lead to it being effectively banned and replaced, something I spend a part of every single day hoping will happen.