The top 10 best places to live during an oil crisis
Pack yer bags, kids — there’s an oil crisis coming and we’re moving to the Big Apple! Eco-website SustainLane has come up with a list of the 10 U.S. cities best able to weather an oil crisis, and New Yawk is number one. The most heavily weighted factor was mobility; in an oil crunch there’s likely to be less of it. Thus, the top 10 were the usual suspects, big cities that have managed to avoid (relatively) excessive sprawl while encouraging citizens to use public transport. Philadelphia made No. 5 for its emphasis on local food production; geek-mecca Seattle came in at No. 8 for its passion for wireless connectivity and telecommuting. Cities singled out for their unsustainability were Arlington, Texas (population: 300,000; buses and trains: 0) and Oklahoma City, deemed the worst big-ish city in the nation to get stuck in when gas prices spike. Oooooklahoma should look into harvesting that wind sweepin’ down the plain …
