Salvage of the old oil age culture

There is a meeting of the Post Carbon group in four hours and I've been finishing up a video that was shot here in Eugene in 2005, a talk by Richard Heinberg which forms the shared common assumptions of the Post Carbon group. I've also been hearing back from many of you free chickens on the Crude Awakening video that I've sent to some of you. On top of that, this little monkey brain has been trying to sketch out a new life in our near future through long conversations with TJ and a very long phone call with Gary.
Gary sent me this link which I find very appropriate considering how most people slowly come to accept the inevitable reduction and lose of cheap energy and the corresponding social "adjustment." Most of us simply assume we must find a replacement for oil to put in our gas tanks. The answer is that we must do without all that enormous nearly free energy.
The task once you get through the denial and grief, anger and even self loathing is to design a life you can accept with no oil energy. Can you fit your life around no car, no job, no fossil fuel heating?
Maybe if you move quickly you'll have time to get a few solar panels and some batteries. So maybe you'll have a little electricity for a radio, CB, small TV if there are any broadcast stations. Oh and a light or two will be possible.
That is the world you must design for yourself that still has your most precious life items in it. The things you want to do must not require fast or heavy transportation, and your car may be something to roll around and live in, and certainly a good source of 12V salvage for a long while, but that's all. That is what is at the end of easy fossil fuels. Maybe much less than that if we don't play nice as the era winds down.
Here's what I think about and learn about with most of my precious internet time.
1. Water, food, shelter.
2. Power generation with solar, wind, hydro.
3. Food, growing food, canning food, preserving food, protecting food..
4. Learning to effectively salvage the machines and buildings of the old oil age.
5. Tribal formation to protect these small acquired assets.
6. Amassing real wealth in the remaining oil indulgent immediate future.
7. Trying to think without using the thinking tools that created the very mess we need to think our way past. How do we not do this again on a smaller scale in the future?