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Transport energy: Transport revolutions - how to fuel transport once oil supplies dwindle. Richard Gilbert and Anthony Perl. Energy World. May 2008, P. 10-11

There is only one way that modern levels of transport activity can be maintained once (if?) oil supplies start to fail. That's to convert most land transport systems to electric, grid-connected operation, with scarce oil supplies being reserved for reduced levels of air and sea transport. So argue Richard Gilbert and Anthony Perl, in this summary of some of the themes of their latest book.
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