A post-oil world gets less sci-fi by the day

[Aurora]

The Guardian - 26/10/09

It is 30 years since the film Mad Max was made, launching the career of Mel Gibson.

The film made a big splash at the time for its terrifying view of a world without oil, where gangs of grisly looking people roam deserts in a post-apocalyptic world, killing each other to get their hands on the few drops of petrol that some have managed to produce in makeshift refineries. Social order has completely broken down.

Great film if you like that sort of thing but complete fiction, of course. Or is it? Three decades later, and I wonder if the film was, in fact, years ahead of its time.

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[careful_eugene]

So what chance is there of the authorities moving quickly? Well, Britain's renewables "revolution", which the government loves to talk of, is simply not going to deliver the goods.

There's a suprise. Good piece though

[Ludwig]

There's a suprise. Good piece though

Yes, nice to read an article by someone who's done their research.

That stuff about Germany's relative success with feed-in tariffs is interesting, and puts into perspective the Anglo-Saxon crap about the market always providing the solution. <Thoughts of emigration>

[welshgreen]

interesting, makes a change from a mocking article.

[Ferrus]

That stuff about Germany's relative success with feed-in tariffs is interesting, and puts into perspective the Anglo-Saxon crap about the market always providing the solution. <Thoughts of emigration>

Yeah, the same dogma that was the British government's 'solution' to famine in Ireland and India in the 19th century. Worked well, too.