What happens if oil hits $200 a barrel? Alberta or Texas will be fine. But economies that don't produce oil are screwed. Especially those that depend on cars.

https://lemmy.zip/post/60756699

What happens if oil hits $200 a barrel? Alberta or Texas will be fine. But economies that don't produce oil are screwed. Especially those that depend on cars. - Lemmy.zip

Lemmy

Then why did they make themselves so dependent on oil? We have alternatives but decided to be lazy. Aesop’s fable
Any time someone suggests “lazy” or “stupid” as a hypothesis to absolutely anything, it means they don’t understand something very important.
Fair enough, I blame conservatism

Any time someone suggests “lazy” or “stupid” as a hypothesis to absolutely anything, it means they don’t understand something very important.

Really ? like these “idiots” ?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXfFACs24zU

“Maybe we’re sufficiently stupid that we won’t exist beyond this century” - Professor Brian Cox

“Greed and stupidity are what will end the human race” - Stephen Hawking

nassimtaleb.org/…/basic-laws-of-human-stupidity/

Brian Cox: The terrifying possibility of the Great Filter

YouTube
What special insight are you suggesting Hawking had about the future of the human race? This is exactly the kind of nothing hypothesis I’m talking about, yes.
Idk man but my car runs on electric
Not everyone has a fully formed penis. Some men need a V8 pickup for medical reasons.