Letter to the Dominion Post sent

Probably won't be pubished because I forgot to put my phone number but here it is

John Munro’s letter “Goodbye to Transition Gully” has hit the nail on the head.

We all know about rising oil and petrol prices. An array of reasons is usually trotted out – threats of war here or there, speculators, the oil companies, a low US dollar or freak weather events.

However, isn’t it time your paper, following the lead of Kim Hill and Chris Laidlaw on Radio NZ, interviewed someone who is aware of peak oil? Couldn’t we have some realism in this conversation? A feature article in the June 2008 edition of National Geographic says “For the past few years, despite a sustained rise in price, global conventional oil output has hovered around 85 million barrels a day”.

Not only have oil prices soared to historic levels, but unlike past spikes, those prices haven't generated a surge in new output.
Further expansion to meet increasing demand only hastens the depletion of this precious finite resource.

New motorways can’t be part of a future after peak oil.

Deirdre Kent