Like it or not, this country runs on energy.
A while ago someone told me that he wouldn't mind paying a little more for gas if it got rid of Trump. I replied "That's because you're stupid."
What the individual pays for petroleum energy at the pump is just the tip of the iceberg. Oh, well, gas went up another $20/tankful. No biggie.
And that in itself I suppose isn't any big thing in the big picture.
What IS part of the big picture is the price of everything else. Those sneakers don't deliver themselves from China. Neither does the lettuce from California. Getting things to where they belong requires people and machines. Machines require energy to run.
Currently, in spite of the never ending efforts being made by Top Men we still run on petroleum generated energy. Get over it.
Until such time as Top Men and/or magicians find a cost effective way of enabling things to move without petroleum energy we are still going to have to use it. The price on goods is still going to have to reflect the cost of the fuel used to get it to the store.
It adds up fast. For example it costs the farmer about a buck a head to grow lettuce. Currently near me it runs about $3/head. Two or three years ago it was running close to $5 in no small part because petroleum was expensive.
I would imaging some day after I am long gone a rocket scientist of some sort will come up with a transporter of some sort like they have in Star Trek and we can beam stuff around but not in this life time.
Pic, don't you know that all the energy required by any society can be produced by rainbows and unicorn farts? Add in Utopian dreams and we can be good to go forever!
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