We rely on Oil for Everything!

All the key elements of industrial societies - transportation, manufacturing, food production, home heating, construction - are totally reliant on cheap and plentiful oil.

When we've extracted around half of the recoverable oil it gets more expensive to extract, is slower flowing and of lower quality. This point is called Peak Oil.

Regardless of price, when oil needed to extract a barrel, exceeds a barrel, the exploration, drilling and pumping grinds to a halt. The oil's no longer worth extracting even at a million dollars a barrel!

A growing body of international experts have calculated the peak will occur sometime between 2006 and 2012
Fifty years ago the world was consuming around
4 billion tonnes of oil per year and average discovery was around 30 billion.
Today it's the other way round - we consume 30 billion tonnes of oil and discover 4.
Each successive year from the peak will see an ever-diminishing flow of oil as well as an increasing risk of
interuptions
to supply.

Peak Oil represents a real challenge in Buxton, a town which relies on transport for tourism, food, manufacturing output to name a few; many of us have to travel outside of Buxton for work.

But there are ways to start to cope with Peak Oil...

The objective for a Transition Town is to make it easy for people to work together. For example, to share lifts to work or grow a variety of their own food. Got lots of cabbages? Swap them for some aubergines or a lift to London.

By making it easier for people to meet and share ideas we can respond to Peak Oil better by working together.

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