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We're so fucked right now as a civilization.

Everyone, everywhere. We are running out of oil. It is over.

Nobody understands how fucked we are because the media is underreporting on it and because of rhetorical satiation. Everyone has been saying the world is doomed for years and years over less serious things. Now the world actually is doomed and there is no language to describe it with.

The destruction of the east-west pipeline in Saudi Arabia escalates things so much. That was 5% of pre-war oil supplies. They're not gonna be able to fix it while Iran-aligned countries keep bombing it. The Red Sea is not going to reopen. The only way to fix this is for America to stand up to Israel and they're not doing it. The US is built to be so, so oil dependent. We can't fucking go to the park or the grocery store without gasoline. And even better designed countries are not immune. There's not going to be enough fertilizer.

There is no language serious enough to describe this. There is no language serious enough to describe this. There is no language serious enough to describe this. There is no language serious enough to describe this.

There is no language serious enough to describe this.
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People with solar panels & electric cars will be sitting pretty!
BlueVeins · 26-30
@ElwoodBlues No they're not. Their food is transported by truck. I can live without driving bc I live in a walkable place, but I cannot live without food. The entire North American continent is designed meticulously to maximize the consumption of oil. Everyone is going to suffer.
@BlueVeins If world oil is cut by 15% and US oil is cut by 15%, people will pay higher prices and drive less so that food can be delivered. The 1973-74 oil shocks cut oil supply by 7% and we dealt with it. I think we can deal with 15% similarly now that 7% of us have electric cars and PHEVs are also popular.
CountScrofula · 46-50, M
I mean oil is still being produced en masse. Tons of domestic oil, oil from Canada, Mexico, etc. The petroleum in our cars is now way way way more expensive, but there's no shortage in our specific supply chain.

Diesel, now diesel is another question entirely and not like an enormous amount of our logistics supply runs on it....
BlueVeins · 26-30
@CountScrofula Our countries' specific supply chains don't matter. It's a global economy, the shortages are everywhere. If one country doesn't have enough, our oil companies will export to that country at a markup. And if our governments ban oil exports to stop that, it will create a cascading economic collapse radiating outward from the countries most deprived, not to speak of the direct humanitarian and diplomatic toll.

Oil is inelastic enough that a 15% supply shock is cataclysmic. The things we would have to do to manage this without hitting a wall are so extreme as to be unthinkable. That's why they're draining the oil reserves. Our governments are wandering around like lost children while the clock on this time bomb ticks down to zero.
GeistInTheMachine · 31-35, M
Ha! I hope so.
The powers that be should be using this as a catalyst to go all in on renewables
BlueVeins · 26-30
@TheDeathOCuHullainn That's true but there's not enough time. Can't implement it fast enough to avoid the worst of it.
@BlueVeins the worst of it is if will be if they dont implement it
Quimliqer · 70-79, MVIP
We’ve got 165 billion barrels in the ground yet!
BlueVeins · 26-30
@Quimliqer Doesn't matter if we can't get it where it needs to go. The infrastructure is being destroyed and blocked.
Quimliqer · 70-79, MVIP
@BlueVeins And government standing in the way.
AdmiralPrune · 46-50, M
Chill your beans. It’ll be fine. Stop reading the internet and go outside.
BlueVeins · 26-30
@AdmiralPrune Dawg gas stations are already running out.
AdmiralPrune · 46-50, M
@BlueVeins I’ll just us my wife’s EV.
@AdmiralPrune exactly

 
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