Here’s a suggestion: Make alternative fuels available, then market them so that people will WANT to stop using oil. Don’t force some random “energy cap” on people just because YOU don’t like their lifestyle.

Isn’t that what communism was about? The government will monitor and moderate your usage of resources so that the rest of the people won’t run out. How well does that really work?

The same goes for electricity. Eliminate the brain-dead, 100+ year old concept of central generation. A major part of the power never reaches it’s intended destination, but is wasted as line loss, transformer loss, etc. Use those billions of dollars to build a local-based infrastructure that could be based on multiple sources. The only reason for the current dilapidated system to remain is to keep the “power” in the hands of big utility companies.

No matter how much we conserve, and we need to, NOTHING will make a difference if the population of humans keeps expanding, or even stays the same.

The root cause of ALL our human caused problems is there are simply too many people. If we had far fewer humans we could literally do almost anything and have a negligible effect.

Like any other “bubble” growth, human population will eventually suffer a collapse. This has happened many times in history in localized events. Now, with our global human overload, the next collapse may be planet-wide. It is not going to be pleasant no matter what, but it could be sufferable if the downsizing is planned and managed. Are we capable of doing that? I doubt it.