OTOH, if gas goes away, so do our big sprawling cities, which can help a lot of the petroleum requirement for food go away too.

Of course, an unstated given in that is that I won't be eating California strawberries anymore. Then again, Prince Edward County strawberries are pretty damn good, if only available for a couple of months a year. Eating will become much more seansonal in nature, and people will eat from close by instead of across the continent. This is not necessarily a bad thing.


The "here" that I meant was North America. Given equivalent techs, food here will be cheaper than in Europe, Africa, and Asia thanks to our low populations and comparatively unspoiled land.

Of course, here in Canada, we've got it in spades, and global warming will probably improve that situation for us (though of course that's far from certain).