They're starting to tap coal-bed methane near where I live. That's bad freakin' news, at least it is to creatures that like to drink clean water, and that's before talking about any greenhouse gas issues.
I'm wondering when things like zoning, building codes and traffic laws will start to erode. In many countries, where fuel is insanely expensive and sometimes not available, you'll see the roads covered with all sorts of vehicles: cars and trucks, carts, sometimes donkeys and horses too, scooters and bicycles all in the mix together. It looks insane to us (see video), but this is probably the future of traffic (the chaos if not the speed).
It'll be the same with building codes. People will do what they have to do, and eventually code enforcement will fall apart out of necessity. Livestock in the suburbs, front lawns converted to pasture or crops, outbuildings and barns built with scrap wood gathered from buildings torn up by recent tornadoes, people digging shallow wells in their formerly upscale "covenant enforced" gated communities (and posting real, armed guards at those gates), etc...
Knowing this kind of thing is coming allows one to position oneself in an advantageous position, like by acquiring the tools and equipment that will be in high demand in that context: non-electric and non-motorized farm tools, passive solar anything, woodworking hand tools, horses (mules, donkeys, etc), basically sturdy stuff that doesn't need gasoline or electricity to operate and who's functions we take for granted now.