by Chip Haynes Thirteen years ago, in 1996, I bought a small folding bike and sold my old truck. On the first Monday in January.... by Chip Haynes
Thirteen years ago, in 1996, I bought a small folding bike and sold my old truck. On the first Monday in January of 1997 I began riding my folding bike to work, and still do, some thirteen years later. Fairly early on, as I searched for information on car-free communities around the US (I really got into that bike thing), I stumbled across information on peak oil instead. Now, you have to understand: in the late 1990's, peak oil was an event only a few fringe types were predicting would happen far, far into our misty distant future. Nothing to worry about. Nothing to see here. Just keep driving.

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