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A report from a presentation that Daniel Lerch and John Kaufmann gave in Rochester, MN. "adapting to the oil shortage will require difficult and painful adjustments for every community. Everything will be affected -- transportation, land use, business operations, local governments, food supplies, education, health care and many others."
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It's time to stop talking about the global oil shortage and do something about it.
That was the message of two nationally known oil industry experts who spoke at the Rochester Community and Technical College's Heintz Center in Rochester last week.
The speakers were John Kaufmann, senior policy analyst for the Oregon Department of Energy, and Daniel Lerch, program manager for the Post Carbon Institute in Portland, Ore.
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Lerch said that to deal with the lack of oil, communities must:
1. Make long-term plans for dealing with transportation and land use.
2. Decide on a 100-year time frame for handling regional planning.
3. Address the issue of private energy consumption.
4. Engage the business community.
5. Build a sense of community and community resilience in dealing with these problems.
