Starter Peak Oil articles

Brother Chris sent a couple of handsomely-written editorials that you may read if you're not familiar with the idea of Peak Oil et al. If you are already quite familiar, I don't think you'll get much out of it. But maybe.

http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2005-09-30/cols_ventura.html

http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2005-10-14/cols_ventura.html

One thing it mentions that I've been thinking about recently is getting into the salvage business. Wouldn't that be great?!?! Tearing up wrecked (or abandoned) cars to suck out the precious precious copper wires. Hey - I found an aluminum head! Whoo-hoo! I can see it now...