http://energybulletin.net/9956.html .......... A basic assumption of the Project is that the County, like other governmental bodies and the American people generally, will not be willing to undertake realistic measures to deal with the problems caused by the end of cheap oil until an emergency economic situation is already upon us. In other words, the TCRP does not assume that any of the sensible measures that could now be taken to ameliorate the coming crisis will, in fact, be implemented, but rather acknowledges that we will probably arrive at the day of reckoning unprepared and looking for a plan