As Dave E. Smalley would say ...

The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions.

Obviously, in this blog, I've spoken about how we're going to have to adjust our lifestyles because for the short term (looking out to the next 5 to 10 years) fuel prices are going to be high, much higher than we're used to. We need to pick a route (or routes), do the research, build up the infrastructure, and then mass produce it (along with about a thousand other things I'm probably overlooking). And while we're at it, we're going to have to accept that food prices are going to be much higher than we're used to as well. Not that I want to be all doom and gloom, but for those of us who have been voting for any length of time, this is a bed we've made for ourselves. We didn't demand policies to develop alternative energies, we didn't demand policies to develop better agricultural methods, we didn't demand policies to help reduce green house gases and trade credits on a world market so that our agriculture and industries could properly trade on those markets. We didn't do it, and now it's come to bite us in our obese asses. So, time to shed those extra pounds, make our bed ... and sleep in it for the foreseeable future.