Peak Oil & Gm foods

First of all, kudos to Tesla motors for their prerseverance and ingenuity. The tesla roadster is a giant leap for cleaner, greener automobiles.

That said, people in the US, and other developed countries, have generally grown accustomed to the level of lifestyle and prosperity that we currently enjoy. I think that it would be rather difficult to try to convince people in developed nations to try to adopt a "cuban-style" approach to solving environmental problems and peak oil as is shown in the film "How Cuba survived Peak Oil".

Of course, waiting for the event to occur is absurd. If people want to maintain their 1st -world lifestyles, we need to start acting now to deal with peak oil in the future. Renewable energies, biofuels, and similar technologies are what we are, and undoubtedly should, be investing in right NOW. And of course, research into technologies such as cold fusion, microwaves, etc. By making these sacrifices now we can potentially decrease the effects that peak oil will have on us when it occurs (worldwide).
The fact is that we are so used to using our automobiles, I feel that people will be more interested in pursuing biofuel and even electric cars since in the end, no one wants to be left without a functioning car. (unless you live in NYC where mass transit is readily available).

Also to point out, the specialization is an effect of human evolution. The fact that only 5% of US population are farmers means that the remaining 95% are devoted to other tasks. While we cannot forget how important food is, we should bear in mind that everything is almost just as important. We want our cars, cheap air travel, internet communications, and every else to be functioning. We can also hope that by training physicists, scientists, and engineers and putting them into agencies like NASA, we will have access to new resources in 50-100 years.

Another thing to bring up- about the genetically modified foods and how 'organic farming' has none of that. Yes, there are many risks in genetically modified organisms of any kind, and these risks are especially profound when you happen to be eating the very thing you modified. But I have to point this out- gm foods are going to be necessary in the future to sustain the world's population, to survive adverse new climactic conditions and new viruses. Many opponents keep saying that gm foods are 'poisonous', 'toxic', 'can cause mutations' and other accusations. But aren't we a constantly evolving species? We learned to live with all kinds of new technologies in the past two hundred years, I'm sure we are going to eventually get accustomed to genetically modified foods one day. . . although the EU may disagree
. . . the first time you try a poison its poisonous. But after many times in small quantities, you become immune.