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    HipoGear is offline Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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    If we can stop using oil, most of this mess would just disappear.


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    Quote Originally Posted by HipoGear View Post
    If we can stop using oil, most of this mess would just disappear.
    For whom?

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    Quote Originally Posted by HipoGear View Post
    If we can stop using oil, most of this mess would just disappear.
    Yep!!

    No oil means no trains or trucks. No ocean vessels carrying cargo. About 2/3 of electrical power shut off. Cities would die off in days or weeks. Politicians wouldn't have anybody to pander to and politics would become local, where you could beat the crap out of them when they do something stupid. That alone would solve most of today's mess. However scrap would be everywhere and worthless and unless you are self sufficient you aren't going to enjoy the new normal. But, you are right, "most of this mess would just disappear".

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    EDC76 is offline Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
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    Quote Originally Posted by starbits View Post
    About 2/3 of electrical power shut off.
    False.

    Coal and natural gas produce 2/3 of the power in the US. Liquid petroleum generates 1%.

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    Quote Originally Posted by EDC76 View Post
    False.

    Coal and natural gas produce 2/3 of the power in the US. Liquid petroleum generates 1%.
    Yes, but what do the people who maintain these coal mines or natural gas stations drive to get to work?
    What does their equipment run off?
    Stop using oil would be the worst thing that could happen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HipoGear View Post
    If we can stop using oil, most of this mess would just disappear.
    Of the 7.4 billion people on this planet right now, I believe over 6.4 billion would die of starvation or war if the flow of oil stopped ...

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