Gasoline/diesel prices hit record highs

The simple fact of the matter, in my opinion, is that there IS no solution. Every potential solution runs into the same problem, which is that the planet can only support so much (although I'm a LITTLE heartened by an apparent breakthrough which involves using molten salts to store solar energy). And it's only going to get worse: if the average citizen in China were to approach the level of consumption that the average American citizen does, then they would use more resources on their own than the entire world does today. And that's not even factoring in India, which is undergoing a process similar to China (albeit slower), and has around as much population.

And the scarcity of oil is going to have a drastic effect on pretty much everything. Our food economy basically is run solely on oil. Oil fuels the tractors that (inefficiently) farm our land, oil fuels the semis that transport our food (the average bite of food an American eats has travelled 1,500 miles from farm to your plate), and oil even creates the fertilizer which keep our food growing.

Barring Gene Roddenberry rising from the grave and telling us exactly HOW we can produce replicators and reliable antimatter reactors, I can only see one inevitable conclusion: either our civilization as a whole collapses and we regress into a local economy, or we go up in a nuclear fire.

to be honest, the only way I see option one happening is if we run out of fuel too fast to be bothered running the planes that would otherwise drop the bomb.

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