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Eh, it will still affect you somewhat, just less directly.
You can still go to the grocery store just fine … but the truck that brought deliveries to the grocery store so you could buy them? It ran on diesel. As did the truck that delivered the food from the packing plant to the distribution center. As did the truck that delivered the food from the farm to the packing plant. As did all the tractors and other heavy equipment used on that farm. And if they all have to pay more for fuel, your groceries are going to get more expensive. If shortages get so bad that they can’t even get fuel, then you might be seeing a lot of empty shelves at the grocery store.
It’s nice to have personal independence from fossil fuels, but it’s an unfortunate fact that our society and economy as a whole are still very dependent upon fossil fuels.
and then they should be saying, can we get electric trucks so we can avoid this? and the answer is:
The result is a growing array of models available today, from last-mile city trucks to powerful heavy-duty prime movers.
Volvo receives order for 30 electric trucks in Australia and announces production start of electric trucks
looks like a yes to me
And the big routes are and can mostly be done by rail, which is very efficient and can be electrified easier than trucks
Don’t forget. Solar and batteries are the cheapest way to make energy.
Rally brings the point home just how vulnerable it makes our societies to be so strongly dependent on fossil fuels
or so strongly dependent on land thousands of kilometers away. cities themselves are a bit precarious if you think about it
It’s better to own the libs than to have resource security, though.
How are those gas power plants going america? Laughs in B.C with full renewable power.
The US is a net gas exporter so those plants are working just fine.
China exports billions more of green tech than USA exports fossil fuels.
Yes but it’s not like they’re going to run out of gas. That’s why they built so many of them.
People aren’t worried about running out of gas. They are worried about running out of money.
The UK only has a couple days of reserve gas
Sure bud
It’s been a net exporter for a decade due to all the fracking. Though they import like 10% of what’s used from Canada, they export double that as LNG.
You sound proud. The US is a shit stain.
My diesel emergency storage canisters are ripe for rotation anyway
