In middle class Australia, we are obsessed with our lifestyle. We strive to earn enough each day to maintain a residence with artificial climate control and steamy hot showers. We are able to transport ourselves in comfort to our destination, by car, train, boat or aeroplane, and we think no more about it. It's what we expect – the good life, that we worked for, that we believe is the norm for most of us in this lucky country. And that means we can work and run small businesses, based on that climate control, and that ease of transport, to serve our customers, and to deliver our goods. But for how long? The age of low cost energy is about to end, and it could end sooner rather than later, and we will wake one day, from this oil and coal slumber, feel the cold and the heat, and wonder how we will transport ourselves and our goods.
Is this fiction or is it real? How long can we afford to continue without alternatives, how long can we continue with business as usual as if could not happen?
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