Waiting for the Post-Oil peak Era

I am eager to live the post-oil peak era with its abandonned SUVs on the border of the roads. Bruce Sterling explains why in its Rant-A-Thon:

Creative class people — the people at this event — will never prosper in an oil society. An oil society sinks a well and surrounds it with bayonets and waits for the civil society to decline around it. Why bother, so long as there’s money coming out of the ground?