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Gordon Price on Gateway, Choice and the Volatility of Oil

06/29/10

06:17:06 pm, by edoherty

, 223 words

Categories: Gateway, Port Mann Twinning, Oil & Gas

Gordon Price on Gateway, Choice and the Volatility of Oil

From The Dependent:

Land use and transportation, historically the concerns of engineers and politicians, have begun to seep into the public conscious as Vancouver works to maintain its status as one of the world’s most livable cities.

City councillor for sixteen years, influential blogger, recognized global speaker and Director of the City Program at SFU – Gordon Price is one of Vancouver’s foremost authorities on the built environment.

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What would you say is the biggest planning issue facing our region today?

The vulnerability to the basic commodity upon which our entire world has been based: oil.

Let’s just cover that off: oil has some particular features that if not making it unique, the combination thereof is extraordinary: it’s liquid and stable at room temperature and it’s incredibly energy intensive. So while people may talk about alternatives, there isn’t any alternative that combines all of those particular features.

We’ve come to accept that our world can function in a certain way based on the particular characteristics of a limited resource that’s been so cheap – bottled water is more expensive – that it’s now in every aspect of our lives: food, clothes, transportation, construction materials, and just about everything that we process has an element of oil in it. [snip]

Full text at http://thedependent.ca/featured/gordon-price-on-gateway-choice-and-the-volatility-of-oil/

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