Crude Awakening 4

Travel energy may wreck Tasmania’s renewables advantage – but only if complacency allows it, says Chris Harries …

The future of the world will be defined by what happens with energy and energy policy. Whilst Tasmania has been embroiled in lively energy debate for decades, these debates have been perennially focussed on electrical energy generation and conservation.

Meanwhile, education of the community about the other half of the energy debate – liquid fuels – is seriously deficient.

It’s time we conversed more about the implications of transport energy – in the interests of our state economy and personal livelihoods.

Download the full article with full graphs etc, here:

IPA_article.pdf

OR

Read here:

http://peakoiltas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/IPA-article.pdf

AND,

http://peakoiltas.org/2014/08/reports-supressed/

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