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  =====   d. options for reducing Australia’s transport fuel demands =====
   
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+ Our oil consumption is very profligate, but this gives us many ways to reduce it.
  
  ==== Cycling ====
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+ Cycling is a very promising option with improved health and environmental outcomes. Recent advances have seen the emergence of the electric bike, essentially a conventional bike with a compact electric motor and a battery pack. Electric bikes open up cycling to those inhibited by hills, long distances or a disability. Cycling is likely to become the most popular alternative to the daily commute by car. As it becomes more popular, demand for cycling infrastructure will grow.
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+ Recommendation: government implement the Australian National Cycling Strategy 2005-2010 with both conventional and electric bikes in mind; government greatly increase spending on cycling infrastructure.**
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+ ==== Urban planning ====
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+ Urban planning has been dominated by a thoughtless assumption of indefinite cheap petrol. Urban planning needs to be re-considered from the ground up in light of Peak Oil.
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+ If people live near where they want to be -- for work, school, shopping, church and friends -- there is less need for them to travel. If people have the land and the skills and the willingness, they can grow their own food, reducing the need for transport (of food) and travel (for shopping). If neighbourhoods become communities, there can be exchange of food, clothing, skills, services, further reducing dependence on oil (VTPI)
  
  ==== Rail ====
  
  ==== Systems redesign to reduce the 'need' to travel/transport ====
  If people live near where they want to be (for work, school, shopping, church and friends) there is less need for them to travel. If people have the land and the skills and the willingness, they can grow their own food, reducing the need for transport (of food) and travel (for shopping). If neighbourhoods become communities, there can be exchange of food, clothing, skills, services, further reducing dependence on oil.



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