Quote from: K-Dog on Aug 01, 2023, 12:37 AMQuote from: ed_from on Jul 31, 2023, 09:11 PMI thought we were running out of affordable fossil fuels and bad stuff was supposed to happen. Are we there yet?
Considering that I once bought gas for 17 cents a gallon in a gas war and getting to and from work now sucks up about an hour of the work shift, the answer is an unequivocal yes.
Indeed. When global peak oil clobbered the world in 2018 it first caused Covid, and then destroyed the ability of average cage owners to drive cheaply to work. Miles driven increased all across America as people sacrificed other things, like a danish on their way to work, went to the movies one less time each month....it was horrible.
Having paid $0.25/gallon for gasoline in olden times, and then suffered when the 1979 global peak oil hit and the rationing in the US kicked in, in certain states, it is reasonable to ask why the 2018 global peak didn't seem to have near the same effect. I mean...peakers just seem to have vanished from the internet by the time it happened, rather than standing around preening over how accurate their claims had been. Not all the wrong ones of course going back to 1990, but the ones they made for 2018....oh...except I don't think they made any of those. More than anything peak oil seems to coincide with the disappearance of peak peakers more than anyone even noticing increased fuel costs.
Hard to say. Of course, folks who wanted that danish back, or that movie they miss, can just get an EV and pay 1/10th the fuel cost and get back those danish and movie costs, even 7 years after peak oil now.