Peak oil and transition....It's not so bad!

     About Peak Oil....It wasn't so bad  ...Kirk and Maria discussed this early on in the book...
     Just for the record, I wrote to the effect that the oil had nearly run out some time before the nuclear accident. It was so expensive that most people couldn't afford it. Local communities started up again, traffic accidents went down, the air was cleaner...The only problem was nuclear fuel... as Maria says wistfully, "without that we'd have had a good future."
     The nuclear accident  happened afterwards. It did not take out the old fashioned cars, but leave the computers and televisions working.  No, the petrol driven cars had already stopped working.  The computers, as is mentioned in the book,  were solar powered, and the television service was limited.  The fact that I already have a marvelously sun powered website, genuinely powered by Californian sun, and very cheaply to boot, makes me think that it is just possible that this might still be happening in the future. Furthermore, as I read that certain computer giants were already looking at Scottish wind and wave power for energy to power the internet, maybe the internet would be functioning.
      Also, if you were a government in a post nuclear country, where an accident had taken out some of the counties, but not all of them, and the prevailing wind at the time meant that there was still a population which was not yet drastically affected, although everyone knew the cancers would come, and come sooner rather than later, which which was one reason why no one talked about it...... Maybe you would think that the internet was a good way of communicating with people.
     I didn't explain about the cancers, or the risks of their children having mutations in the story, but the way  the reality hits Maria, just when life is full of promise, was more than enough. I have blogged about the resulting problems  as a guest author on another website.
     The teenagers in this story want to have fun, they like being with their friends and life is for living.
     Anyway, it's your future, it can be great, so be positive, take a look at the next post because life CAN be brilliant. Absolutely, utterly, amazingly, brilliant.