It doesn't even take sharp, quick rises in price; people will reduce their consumption of gas and cheaper alternatives will be developed naturally as prices edge higher and higher. Market-driven shifts like that happen over years and decades. I've read some pretty apocalyptic stuff about what is going to happen when we someday suddenly run out of oil, and I don't believe it, at all. All those writers pretty much ignore the laws of economics.
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