Gasoline/diesel prices hit record highs

You can drill for oil all you want, but nothing will ever match the oil producing ability of the rich middle east. If we're already pumping as much as we can from the richest deposits of oil known to the world and we're getting these prices, what is trying to squeeze oil from a few measly spots going to do?

Peak oil is coming: really fast, too. If anybody's ever watched a documentary about electric cars, it'd be a no brainer. Electric is far far far cheaper and somewhat renewable, but the mysterious car companies decided not to produce them anymore, and just SMASH them all.
Something tells me we'll be seeing them revived again by the early turn of the decade at worst.

But all in all, the modern American way of life is going to come to an end in our generation. Local communities will become MUCH more important. Electric batteries won't do much for a fully loaded trailer, so the cargo industry will change beyond my perception.

I also fucking hate having my wife using gamingforce on the same computer.

Jam it back in, in the dark.