The Cost of Sprawl

The Atlantic Cities:

This is just common sense.  As the article points out, one way to become more energy efficient is to live in more dense communities.  It is pretty obvious that market demands aren't rational, when Mcmansions and sprawl are what people make their largest and longest-term investment in.  If peak oil is near, these will be terrible investments, although the housing bubble has already proven that many of them were terrible investments.