[Peakoil] Idea for an OIL PEAK Action

[Adrian Whitehead]

Hi All,

Just had a great idea for an oil peak action.

While traveling to Woden by car today (one of my few trips on the main
roads) I noticed there seems to be a lot of signs in the middle and on the
sides of the major roads in the ACT.

Given their number and that on the only other major road I use is Belconnen
Way and I have seen a few signs there for a couple of weeks I suggest they
are fairly well tolerated in the ACT.

Hence I am proposing that we replicate the slogans on our stickers, get some
corflute signs made up (what we call the plastic cardboard use for making
signs in Victoria), get some poles and get a team to maintain the signs in
the roads i.e. different people could look after different stretches of main
road etc.

We would also need a simple url like peakoil.org below the message or should
we use our website?? 
 
I would be happy to put $50 up to start money raising for this process. 

Corflute signs should be fairly cheap given they will be only one colour
(black on white), the stakes might actually be more expensive, perhaps we
can improvise.

Anyway compared to walking the suburbs leafleting, the idea has a number of
merits.

1. Time - relative quick action, especially using a car and two people, one
driver and one staker (starting to sound bit like a bad vampire movie)
different people could look after different areas.
2. Repeated exposure - people driving the same routes will see the signs
each day, people driving different routes will see multiple signs in
different areas.
3. Target audience - what more could we want than direct exposure to the
peak hour drivers, mums and transport industry people as they are actually
driving.
4. Timing - we seem to be in the low part of the ever increasing oil price
rise. We could get them up before the next price jump.

Any comments, thought, suggestions, or $$$

Adrian

Adrian Whitehead
M: 0403 735 118