The world is rapidly running out of cheap oil and the industry has a logistics nightmare to deal with, as we make the transition from one form of energy to another.

The Transport Industry has always solved its own problems and this one, I feel, is no different.

Just, a lot more difficult.

I have always believed that Truckers were great problem solvers and that every one of us has got an opinion on everything. So with that in mind, my purpose is to focus attention on the above issue, and allow anyone with an opinion of merit to contribute in any way possible to solving it.

Therefore this competition is based on three of my old Dads favourite sayings:

Where there is a will there is a way.

Everything has to be based on common sense.

Keep it simple.

But it requires something from you

1. Do you have an inquisitive mind?
2. Do you thrive on a challenge?
3. Are you a problem solver?
4. Are you curious?
5. Do you wonder what If?
6. Are you searching for an answer?
7. Do you like a gamble based on your ability to think through a solution?
8. Do you feel like you are a national or internation champion, but need to find a sport that requires only mind power?
9. Are you willing to give something a go?
10. Are you good enough to win?

So if you answered yes to any of the questions above, sharpen that competitive mind of yours and let the game begin.

The Questions

The First Ten.

1.      How does the international transport industry continue to supply the World with its daily needs, when the oil price finally becomes totally prohibitive?

2.      What are you personally doing to help solve the problem of future oil shortages and rapidly rising fuel prices, right now?

3.      What can you do today, to raise the public profile of this issue and start getting others to sit up and take notice?

4.      If the world electricity supply is so heavily dependant on oil to provide generation capacity, how will industry and private consumers be able to maintain the current level of consumption when oil becomes scarce?

5.      How do individual consumers of oil (motorists, transport companies and electricity consumers) take possession of their own energy production solutions?

6.      If hydrogen is the next big source of cheap energy, how can it be produced without the need for expensive supply systems?

7.      What will my Grandchildren's world look like in 2035?

8.      How will they power their world without being bled dry by a few rich energy states or privately owned suppliers?

9.      What can history teach us in preparation for the future?

10.  If the world suddenly (say within 5 years) needed to switch to an alternative to oil, what would it be and why?

The Next Ten

1.      If the human race has the greatest mind for invention, why haven’t we invented something that doesn’t poison the planets atmosphere?

2.      Why are investors not knocking down the door to get at the next energy source?

3.      If someone has already invented a motor or fuel source that can replace the Internal Combustion Engine, where is the store were all these new motors are being kept?

4.      How can the world deal with a recession of the magnitude and scale of the one that is coming, when oil prices become unaffordable?

5.      If the world should need to go back to coal as primary source of energy, how do we deal with the huge future carbon (CO2) problem, this will create?

6.      How do we deal with the carbon problem we already have?

7.      If the much talked about “green house gases” are causing the worlds atmosphere and weather patterns to oscillate between extremes, and if the western world does nothing without there being a profit in it, how do we marry the two together to solve the problem?

8.      One of mans greatest and earliest learnt lessons, is the ability to be fuel efficient (Do more with less) How do we wake up that natural ability?

9.      How do you make Politicians realise that there are votes in being fuel efficient, when the greens have been trying for years?

10.  Are Politicians relevant, or should this energy transition just be market driven?