Comment Re:Whoops! Solely AP Not MPR (Score 1) 736
No, the way to secure ourselves against 1973 is to get as many of our needs met locally and sensibly as possible. I'm talking food and medicine gardened with little to no oil requirement, and durable instead of disposable goods made with local materials. Those things are possible and being done - just google Transition Towns, for example.
The industrial system requires 400 gallons of oil per person to farm using methods wherein efficiency is not as important as the profits of the middlemen between you and the farmer. Drilling for more oil output is just an attempt to stall the consequences.
Simply put, we have a finite resource that is running out, and transitioning to a lifestyle built from the ground up around not being dependent can fix that issue. However, it gets a lot harder to live off the land when it's badly polluted. When the Gulf and the heartland start looking like Nigeria with its oil spills, it's too late - the oil will become too costly only a little later, and you've destroyed the alternatives.