• The religion of Growth suddenly faces down-sizing.
• The public has not been told about oil depletion.
• Supermarket food: 10 calories of oil per calorie of nutrition.
• Americans consume their body weight in oil each week.
• The USA is designed around the automobile.
• SUVs still outsell hybrids.

Some who are not aware of the impending oil supply problems claim the transition to renewables will provide jobs, others claim it will save money, still others claim that energy independence will make the US safer.