Comments about ‘Utah's suburban cities see population boom in past decade’

Auto dependent suburbs far from jobs, stores, and transit are a recipe for absolute disaster when the cheap oil rug gets yanked out from under us.

I'm sure the places have stores.

Today's boom, tomorrows blight...

The haters always love to come in when stories like this are printed. The fact is that people have to go somewhere, and people who move out that way know that they'll have longer commutes. If you don't live there, don't worry about it.

Hope you got strong legs, Mom of 2, to haul them kids from your exurb to where they need to go in a bike trailer while the minivan quietly rusts away with an empty gas tank.
There will still be oil in the future, but most of us will no longer have the means to buy much of it.

What the haters dont realize is that they, too, were once at the edge of civilization. Perhaps they should voluntarily give up their homes and yards for highrises that would replace their neighborhoods so no one would have to-god forbid-drive their car.

Or we can Drill baby Drill!!

There's plenty of oil. Just leftist marxist that are slowing things down.

You may not give up your home and yard but you may very well find yourself subsistence farming it when you no longer have the means to travel to distant places of employment every day.
Today they call us haters tomorrow they will whine "why didn't anyone tell me this would happen?"

Unsustainable means it cannot be sustained. The problems with exurban life will continue to grow until they become insurmountable. Then it's occupants will "voluntarily" walk away from them.

I recently found a job much closer to home. It has been 'fun' to see how long I can go without filling up the gas tank. It also feels good to know I am not harming the environment as much.

@Lowonoil....I am asking you and your neighbors to give up your homes and yards so that I, and the rest of the exurbanites, can move into a high density utopia that will replace your current neighborhood. Unless you live in one yourself, dont say that those in the 'outer reaches' are that bad. I remember when Sandy was the middle of nowhere.

So rather than thanking me for warning you of the dangers of painting yourself into the corner of a heavily auto dependent lifestyle in view of the energy and resource disasters to come, you instead want me to give you my house?