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In January I worn out two weeks in Cuba, and previously I went I saw
the visual communication "The Power of Community - how Cuba survived Peak Oil"

Cuba suffered an economical daze when the Soviet Union collapsed
in 1990. For the last 30 years it had been receiving
substantial support, plus industrial activity and cheap
oil in swapping for refined sugar. All this stopped all but overnight.
For the said 30 time of life the United States has operated a trade
embargo and move about ban hostile Cuba, and this continues to the
present day.

Cuba has every oil of its own, in spite of this not just about ample for
transport, electricity people and - vitally - fertilizer
and chemical crop. At the instance of the Soviet collapse
Cuba was mistreatment more fertiliser per area unit than the US;
agricultural crop fell dramatically. Food allotment was
introduced but the people began to experience from deficiency disease.
The pic shows how queen-sized realm farms were out of order up into
individual co-operatives and how both trim section of landscape in
the cities was inside-out over to rapidly increasing vegetables. With no
fertiliser, business had to be organic, and with no substance for
tractors, bos taurus and horses returned to the lands. Farming became
labour-intensive; much and much empire became farmers.

In the wee 90s quality cuts were common - ageless up to 24
hours. If inhabitants could get to sweat (and instrumentality was severely
disrupted) they recurrently had nil to do because nearby was no
power. It's with the sole purpose in the ending few old age that physical phenomenon cuts
have largely disappeared. The treatment has go in three distance.
First, the aging national installation has been superseded to a large
extent by place a lot of locality generators to replace
the few ample weight stations of the cross and the atomic installation that the
soviets ne'er processed. (Not CHP - in that clime you just
don't necessitate the heat!) Secondly the administration has managed
demand, and you don't see strand bulbs anywhere - they're all
CFL's. There is as well a program to regenerate tame appliances
with much reorganized ones. (But Cuba is a bankrupt country, and the
volume of municipal appliances essential be small.) Thirdly, Fidel -
or Raoul - is now big chums near Hugo Chavez in Venezuela which
has loads of oil. (This is fortunate, as all generating plants,
large and small, be to be oil -fueled.) Cuba has conveyed 20,000
doctors to Venezuela and receives oil in legal document. I've not been
able to find out whether this is as overmuch as Russia utilised to
provide.

There is stationary a shipping hurdle exacerbated both by oil
shortages and by the deficiency of trim surround for vehicles. Mass
transit is lately that: nation overflowing into stuff lorries.
Government vehicles of all kinds are looked-for to take
hitch-hikers, and yellow-uniformed ride coordinators are
stationed at the side of the street to assure that they do. Cuba
was one of the oldest Latin-American countries to have railways.
They are nonmoving there, but approaching the roads they are bimestrial overdue
for repairs and care.

So has Cuba gleefully survived Peak Oil? The country
certainly suffered an oil stupefaction next to wide consequences,
and patch belongings are amended than they were in the early 90s
people say that belongings are inactive not what they were earlier the
Soviet Union collapsed. The on-going US trade stoppage has persistent to
make things difficult, on the other hand illogically Cuba standing buys
millions of dollars of provisions from the US, and Cuban expands in the
States also displace more or less $1billion rear burrow all period of time. With only
11m grouping in 111,000 km2, [UK 60m - 242,000km2] the land has
the future to be self-sufficing in agriculture, but the
command discount has been unable to deliver the goods this. The 2006 Annual
Economic Review transcription that MP's at the Economic Committee
complain of toil subject worries which metallic element to low
productivity, depravity and wastefulness.

Do we have a teaching for the pause of the world? The planetary will
suffer confusable worries from Peak Oil, but it is fantastic that
they will rise to a certain extent as unexpectedly as they did in Cuba. The most
important distinction is that Cuba has replaced its Russian oil,
at lowest to many extent, next to Venezuelan oil. The international doesn't
have that option.

On a worldwide scale, when the oil's gone, it's gone!