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No More Overseas Travel? - Running out of oil? |
26-Oct-2007 At 9:58:12 AM |
oweng
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I found this depressing article on-line. I read this guys book earlier this year, didnt realise he was a climber though!
There is nothing really about climbing itself in the article, but it does raise issues about upcoming shortages in oil (and the associated massive price rises that will come with it) and the sustainability of climbing. Worth a read if your into that sort of things.
http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=7#more-7
Its interesting to consider how sustainable the 2+ hour each way drives most of us do on the weekends to get to our favorite crags. If not environmentally, then at least economically. A trip to Araps from Melb is about 400km, say 56 litres for the round trip at 7 litres/100kn. Thats $67 at $1.20 a litre. So thats $135 if the price doubles, or $200 if it triples. I would think $200 would be the upper level that people would pay to make regular trips ($67 each with 3 people in the car). Any price rise above that would pretty much put an end to the regular long climbing commute. We have been protected from the recent oil price increases by the Australian Dollar increasing in value against the US dollar. Anyway, some food for thought.
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