I recently gave a one hour presentation to the Board of Directors at a 4000+ employee engineering firm (headquarters in Tampa, FL) on Peak Oil. Not only were they blown away by the idea of Peak Oil becoming reality, but they also started brainstorming ideas about how to turn Peak Oil into business opportunities.

In many circumstances, people would tend to frown on people making money from a bad situation, however many of the people that sit on this board of directors are very well connected and have influence in the political process at the state and local levels (and therefore can make things happen).

I believe that in our world today, major change must come from the top down but unfortunately it is business leaders that drive our markets and therefore shape our country's legislation. I believe that unless the corporate world embraces Peak Oil as a truth instead of an elephant in the room, the world will be much better off in the long run.

Anyhow, the feedback I received from my presentation seems to be "OK - we understand there is a problem, now how is YOUR generation going to solve it?" You see, I am 26 years old and I was giving a presentation to men and women of retirement age. It would have been easy for me to point the finger back at them and say "Hey - your generation created this mess," but instead I started talking about all of the different grassroots groups that are advocates of energy independence and relocalization. I even was able to bring up this and many other websites during the presentation. They were amazed at how many people are talking about Peak Oil and how unnoticed it was in Corporate America.

Just thought I would share that experience.

Bryan