Anyone who was driving in 1972 knows that things could get ugly out there. Reporting in a Wall Street Journal blog, Keith Johnson cites Jeff Rubin, who sees $200/bbl oil in 2010, $7/gallon gas, and the removal of 10 million cars from our current fleet of about 57 million.
This change is expected to occur among the poor, but will those who can afford to change be laggards? Surely it hasn’t been poor people snapping up decayed inner city housing in Seattle for $400,000-$500,000 a house for the past five years. Call me crazy, but I would expect the middle classes to be just as proactive in reading the tea leaves here.
And this might be just as good a place as any to offer a transportation-lite dietary tip- collards and dandelion greens (not the dandelions you find in your lawn) will grow year round in Seattle. You’ll thank me for it later.
H/T to Brad Plumer for the link.
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