Where I Live Will Be a Mute Point After I Get My Jet-Pac...[quote name='danax' post='142373' date='Saturday, January 20th, 2007 @ 7:29pm']I've been pondering the whole "peak oil" scenario and how we'll be affected if radically expensive oil prices happen. Here's one person's idea of what we might be in store for; Should residents of Houston, a city built on cheap energy and that generates 140 million miles of vehicle traffic daily, using 4.5 million gallons of gasoline, be concerned? Absolutely, says Jim Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century. "Well, this may not be a happy thought," Kunstler says, "but the folks in Houston may have to lower their expectations about what kind of life will be possible in Houston. Houston has become what it is because of cheap car travel and cheap air conditioning. These are two things that may not be with us much longer