there are plenty of places where the surrounding farmland is not going to be able to grow enough crops to feed the people who live within walking distance.
when we run out of oil, food boats and trucks are not going to bring food anywhere. billions will die. cities will smell like dead people.
there are two questions, when will this happen and can we build new technology in that time. the current estimate for whats known as peak oil is 2006-2020. peak oil is when we harvest half of all possible oil and the price slowly but exponentially goes up forever until its not economically feasible to use oil for anything. i think i read that the date for 'road warrior, no oil at all is 2060 or 2080.
what kind of technology is going to have an entire infrastructure complete between now and then? when considering the success of the railroad, consider the horrific economic collapse and military showdowns that will strangle the next decades.
not hydrogen. that other thing i posted about, a self-renewing perpetual motion machine that sails on the zero point field, that sounds like a pretty huge miracle. and therefore doubtful. but i dont really know. sounds bleak to me.
how easy is it to put a hand crank on an mp3 player so i can listen to music on my farm? i think an investment in hand crank electronics would be an extremely good idea right about now. if i wanted dollars.
then again, when i convert all my wealth to oil based fertilizer and pesticides and rule the entire tristate area with an iron fist, the more the better.
someday, our great grand kids will discover that they can use large farms to grow plants for use as biomass fuel in the mysterious machines left behind by the ancient ones. and it will be a pollution and capitalism-free utopia forever.
seriously, what else would happen? exactly this. and it could just happen today, totally. could have happened many years ago. how mind blowingly ironic that will be.
what is the message provided by the republicans that calms me down? we can use hydrogen? we can turn coal into gasoline and pollute the world so much that all the people in heaven will laugh at us? cross your fingers for the perpetual motion machines that your country’s owners (big oil) have apparently been supressing.