Peak Oil the Solution to Global Warming because when something costs more, people use less of it [Yes, but not quite]

The low-hanging energy fruit has already been picked, and it costs more and more in energy terms to extract what’s left.

SHOOT: Great article, but I somehow think we'll continue polluting heavily for the next 2-5 years, via cheaper and smaller vehicles and via using more polluting alternatives (because we'd rather have the lights on. So we may actually see pollution increase a lot more, as we are in China right now. Fundamentally over the very long term he's right, but then there's also coal (over the longer term) which will also be used to replace oil (as synfuels), as SASOL does, and that is far more polluting.

clipped from c4ss.org It seems pretty clear to me that we’re going to have an enormous reduction in total energy consumption, and in CO2 emissions, over the next generation–and the Kyoto Protocols will have very little to do with it. The cute blonde actress in the American Petroleum Institute’s infomercials (a lot more mercial than info, in my opinion) can say all she wants that “Fact is a growing world will require more, 45 percent more by 2030…” But fact is, they’re not gonna get it. Peak Oil is a fact. None of the proposed solutions, from shale and tar sands to “drill, baby, drill,” can survive much scrutiny. It doesn’t matter how large those oil reserves are that the oil industry’s propaganda keeps telling us about. What matters is the rate at which the oil can be extracted, and the increasing energy cost of extracting it. And the “fact is” that, in recent years, the amount and cost of drilling required to extract a given amount of oil has escalated enormously.