Local Institute for Self-Reliance

Drilling For Oil and Building Highways: more energy efficient (by far) than bicycles

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Based upon mountains of faulty data, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and its many off-shoots advocate now as a “solution to the fossil fuel problem” the return to so-called “carbohydrate economies.”
This sort of economy essentially consists of families, communes, or small groups doing their own farming; re-enacting, to some extent, the barter system; high [...]