Get set for life in the twilight zone

Submitted by admin on Sat, 22/11/2008 - 16:48

A frank and sobering examination of the increasing lifestyle impacts of Peak Oil...

THE MORE expensive oil gets, the more Katherine Carver's life shrinks.

She has given up caravan trips. She stays home most weekends. She has scrapped her twice-a-month volunteer stint at a Malibu wildlife refuge - the trek from her home in Palmdale, in the high desert north of Los Angeles, just got too expensive.

How much higher would fuel prices have to go before she quit her job? The 270-kilometre round trip to her job with Los Angeles County Child Support Services is costing her nearly $US1000 ($1040) a month - one-fifth of her salary. It has the 55-year-old thinking about retirement. Read more.

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