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Recreation vehicles will revert to bikes

Half a million off-road vehicles in Washington, plus those in other states and countries, will soon be without fuel and we will be fortunate to have muscle-powered bicycles.

However, it’s not just about ORVs. Most of us can take discredit for a lot of the wasteful consumption made possible by cheap energy. The problem now is that the demand for cheap natural gas and oil is rising when production is now in the depletion mode.

This behooves us all to be aware of coming disasters and art accordingly.

If you care at all about your future, check out www.earthpolicy.org for chapter 1 of (Plan B2.0”) by Lester R. Brown, who has a plan for rescuing our planet. Book to be released in late January.

Another good book, “The Long Emergency” by James Howard Kunstler, and now available, depicts the extreme hardships ahead and also has some solutions.

JAMES J. HOOVER

Lynnwood

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