after oil

http://www.dawn.com/2007/03/08/op.htm#5

q>But since oil is cheap and easy to use it will be incredibly hard to give up, especially since the biggest benefit of new fuels — lower carbon emissions — will be shared with future generations. Past changes in energy technology have made life easier for the people who use it; this switch might make things harder and more expensive.
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well, there is one way to reorg life to make it easier: simply move people together.  People who want to be close to each other will simply move into the same house/apartment.  Then life really will be easier, instead of driving a 2ton truck to go see each other, they will just walk across the hall.  We will simply have to adjust our mindsets to take advantage of this revolution: the harvesting of our cities and infrastructure.

This will not take any new morality or leaps of emotion.  Just start taking advantage of what is there in the cities, and do it cheap.  Same old self-interest applies.

Planning for this would involve only tearing down restrictions on creative use of existing property.  e.g. building shacks in backyards for 2nd families.  

The reptilian brain could still function in this economy, since it is well understood and there are no surprises there.  It will not even need any r&d, just artistic talent to make temporary living space seem livable.