I think the one thing that most people don't realize is that oil is what fuels the massification/mallification of the country right now.
If we can't transport materials cheaply (cheap gasoline for trucks), cheap fast food and cheap Wal-Mart goods become things of the past. If we can't create plastics/petrochemical products, we cant store and ship food easily. All mass produced products become more expensive as plastic gets expensive.
Energy though - we won't have problems with energy production. We'll build nuclear power plants and solar arrays and wind farms and have oceanic thermal exchange to produce electricity. People won't be able to travel unless they use all electric or hydrogen cars though... no more hybrid shit. Hybrid cars are like the methadone of oil addiction - better to get off the shit entirely. The real question is: how do you power an airplane without jet fuel? If planes won't be able to fly anymore, that'll really be the end of rapid globalization.
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Date: 2005-07-25 04:25 pm (UTC)If we can't transport materials cheaply (cheap gasoline for trucks), cheap fast food and cheap Wal-Mart goods become things of the past. If we can't create plastics/petrochemical products, we cant store and ship food easily. All mass produced products become more expensive as plastic gets expensive.
Energy though - we won't have problems with energy production. We'll build nuclear power plants and solar arrays and wind farms and have oceanic thermal exchange to produce electricity. People won't be able to travel unless they use all electric or hydrogen cars though... no more hybrid shit. Hybrid cars are like the methadone of oil addiction - better to get off the shit entirely. The real question is: how do you power an airplane without jet fuel? If planes won't be able to fly anymore, that'll really be the end of rapid globalization.