Peter, Hello! from the Tri-Cities.  You are correct we are served by Amtrak and we are surrounded by agriculture and WA State I believe has the highest percentage of organic farms of all the states.  Most of our power IS hydro with tons on wind coming on line in the Columbia River Gorge and we do have a nuke facility out on the Hanford reservation.  I believe our only refineries are on the West side of the mountains?  We do have fuel terminals at the confluence of the Snake & Columbia which I believe the finished product is barged/pipelined in to.   And I think there are also some natural gas lines coming in from the East.  Also, our electric companies are still publicly owned (for now).  We have a great public transit system  and with only 17 inches of rain a year you can certainly bike in the Winter.

My wife and I are both peak oilers and have decided to stick it out here.  We thought about moving to the small town of Goldendale where we own a couple homes but feel this area will do just fine.  We are selling our properties up there to pay off the house down here and we are out of debt!   We have just under an acre in the town of West Richland.   Being a very rural area our town allows barnyard animals so we were able to bring in chickens this year as an addition to our garden.  Anyhoo…what made you think of Tri-Cities, WA?  Jon