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Yep, that's something that has so far failed to concentrate minds - shortages as opposed to high prices. We're so f?cking pampered.

The price is to a large extent irrelevant: we're rich beyond any ancestor's most far-fetched dreams.

But if you can't actually buy stuff because it's not there, it's either burnt already or bought by someone richer, well, even the most efficient FUV is going nowhere.

There is absolutely no alternative to cutting back on consumption. Make machinery as efficient as you can, it won't go without fuel.

More power (renewable) to Whipple's elbow.

emordnilap wrote:Make machinery as efficient as you can, it won't go without fuel.
More power (renewable) to Whipple's elbow.

Exactly!

That's the point in the thread about plug-in hybrids where a bunch of retards insisted on arguing about the efficiency of the engine.
Who cares?
As long as it's powered by a renewable fuel and is reasonably efficient it's good enough.

But I digress: yes, people don't realize that there are going to be shortages and pretty soon now.

Economics states that the market will always be supplied and as long as that happens there are no shortages.

That's true. Textbook theory.
What most people miss from that reading, however, is that if supply shrinks then demand must shrink to meet it. In other words the price must rise to whatever level it takes to price the excess demand out of the market.

That doesn't mean a couple quid a litre. It probably means a fiver a litre.
To start with.

Got bike?

Yea, I htought about $15 gas the other day and thought how cheap gas would appear to be now, $3.53.

nepenthean wrote:Yea, I htought about $15 gas the other day and thought how cheap gas would appear to be now, $3.53.

Ever tried converting the UK price into $? Smile... "There's always some bastard, who is wose-off than you"!