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2.70 a gallon in northern california. am i the only one who thinks this is the precursor to some serious civil unrest. i mean what is joe schmoe gonna do when gas is 3.50 a gallon in like 4 months??
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You're not the only one and this goes much, much deeper than expensive personal transport. Think about everything we depend on daily which requires petroleum...
Electricity, plastics, fabrics, heating oil, fertilizers and pesticides, transportation of food 1000's of miles to the store; the list goes on and on.
This is a long read but its a well researched and footnoted article. While I want to be more optimistic than this author, I'm not sure his case isn't solid. I keep reminding myself that we were able to launch a ship to the moon and build the atomic bomb faster than we thought we could, surely there's a way to dig ourselves out of this mess.
All the same, I didn't sleep well after reading the article and truly wonder what the future holds.