Obviously, many things will have to go. One of them I suspect will be the motor vehicle, or at least every individual having one. Their use will simply be marginalized even if they are electric. Energy will simply not be available to the level it is being used today.
There is a large group of individuals (they are vastly more educated than myself) that believe the Amish may represent one possible pattern of life worth considering, at least there living habits, not their breeding habits.
Parked here at the Amish store we frequent, is one of their modes of travel. I am sure it is well know just how much feed, hay and oats, one of these horses consumes. Let's say 5 acres of pasture---and it all has to be harvested and stored . If each family in our county had a horse and buggy and there are ten thousand families (there are, I believe about 40,000 people in Portage county) then we would have to have 50,000 acres of hay fields. Interesting. One would have to wonder how is that possible.
But then there are some 11 million people from Milwaukee to Gary Indiana. I think I see a math problem. In 1900 (the last time horses were in common use) the population of the entire US was only 7 times as big as the above Milwaukee-Gary is now. The US has now grown 4 times greater. So what is the future of personal transportation?
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