The things we do when drunk....

A first blog...after a few glasses of wine and a discussion with my partner. Discussing the post oil event.

Let's be honest...no-one wants to think about it. Nobody wants their lifestyle to change because it has to. If we have to change we do it because WE want to and not because of necessity. Yet the issues of climate change and peak oil are not going to go away simply because we choose to ignore it. It is going to happen whether we like it or not and frankly, we don't like it do we really?

In discussion with aforesaid partner and in my usual meandering way, I pictured Mad Max 2 whilst he was whittering on about climate change and peak oil and anarchy ensuing...so post apocalyptic in my wine soaked brain transferred into post oil political...as it does when drunk and you think you are being terribly witty. Immediately and him NOT being drunk, he thought it a hoot and straight away told me to google it! I did and it doesn't exist but it does now...even though I personally, as the inventor of the phrase, don't think it's that funny. As a malapropism, I think it kinda rocks but funny? Well, neither is the subject matter for that matter...oh dear, sorry about that!

Seriously though, it is going to happen and we need to think about it very thoroughly...visions of hoodies on bicycles, chasing my petrol filled 4 x 4 are the stuff of nightmares. I have a 4 x 4 through necessity. I live in an incredibly rural area, with nery a whiff of public transport within 2 miles, no local shops, no local full stop.

I work 13 miles from my rural idyll and this necessitates the vehicle, furthermore, I have large dogs...the initial idea of having large dogs was that I could strap them to carts and they could tow my less than sylphlike personage to work; however, it is unfortunate that this has proved a silly idea as they are different sizes and my cart would thereofre work with a limp! A further downside is that now the cart tows the dogs instead. So, somewhat less than sustainable I fear. I do have two cats who firmly believe in recycling and one of them finds her own food and brings some of it back to share with the smaller mutt, relieving the necessity of me having to feed him as well! Just kidding. Before I get any animal activist having a go...I should say I'm a passionate vegetarian, for reasons of morality and a huge and unabiding love for animals...alive and not plated! The sacrifices on the altar of my doorstep are very distressing! I have tried to think of a way to get the dogs to earn a living but as yet I am stumped. Talking of stumps, one of the hounds is disabled and should probably claim something from the government on the grounds that he cannot pull a cart because he only has three legs, bless.

I digress...you will find that as I go along on these little tea party jaunts that I do that a lot. Nevertheless, the subject matter is important. What are we going to do when there is no oil? How much of our lives are actually dependent on it...even when we don't realise? Plastic needs oil...making bloody cars needs more oil than the £2,000 the government currently want to throw at us in a vain attempt to persuade us that this is a GOOD thing. Humbug!!! Then there's the transport of imports, export of WASTE(!) for goodness sake; domestic heating etcetera, etcetera. The list is actually never ending. So, I say again...what are WE going to do when the oil runs out...for this, I refer you to CUBA. No, no, I don't mean GO to Cuba...GO to YouTube and type in Cuba just see what they have done because of oil sanctions...they're a better country than mine Gungha Din.

The point being...if we had to go back to horse drawn vehicles (or even dog drawn!)...how long would it take you to get into work every day?