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Eh, it will still affect you somewhat, just less directly.
You can still go to the grocery store just fine … but the truck that brought deliveries to the grocery store so you could buy them? It ran on diesel. As did the truck that delivered the food from the packing plant to the distribution center. As did the truck that delivered the food from the farm to the packing plant. As did all the tractors and other heavy equipment used on that farm. And if they all have to pay more for fuel, your groceries are going to get more expensive. If shortages get so bad that they can’t even get fuel, then you might be seeing a lot of empty shelves at the grocery store.
It’s nice to have personal independence from fossil fuels, but it’s an unfortunate fact that our society and economy as a whole are still very dependent upon fossil fuels.
and then they should be saying, can we get electric trucks so we can avoid this? and the answer is:
The result is a growing array of models available today, from last-mile city trucks to powerful heavy-duty prime movers.
Volvo receives order for 30 electric trucks in Australia and announces production start of electric trucks
looks like a yes to me
And the big routes are and can mostly be done by rail, which is very efficient and can be electrified easier than trucks
Don’t forget. Solar and batteries are the cheapest way to make energy.
Yes, but the economies of scale of cargo transport generally mean that the percentage of the total cost attributable to fuel cost is usually pretty small.
Take bananas, for example. If they cost $0.70 per pound at the store, how much fuel could have been used getting a pound of bananas from the plantation to the port, shipped from that port to a port in the United States, then from that port to a distribution center, then to the store? So what would doubling the price of fuel do for the price of bananas?
With more expensive items, shipping (and therefore fuel) is an even lower percentage of the total input costs.
The price of goods will go up with the price of fuel, but not as much as a lot of people seem to assume.
How are those gas power plants going america? Laughs in B.C with full renewable power.
The US is a net gas exporter so those plants are working just fine.
You sound proud. The US is a shit stain.
Fuck no. The US sucks ass. I’m just pointing out a fact: The reason the US has so many gas plants is a strategic and business decision. We’ll likely pay higher prices for electricity but we’re not going to run out of gas for them.
Fair enough. The shithole I’m located in relies on coal for the most part, because why wouldn’t it. There is quite a bit of renewable energy that was setup before the current administration chopped the incentives, though.
Our problems are the same but inflected differently.
China exports billions more of green tech than USA exports fossil fuels.
Yes but it’s not like they’re going to run out of gas. That’s why they built so many of them.
People aren’t worried about running out of gas. They are worried about running out of money.
The UK only has a couple days of reserve gas
And some people aren’t worried about either. They just got bombed to death.
If there is no money to buy something then it doesn’t matter if it’s available or not.
Sure bud
It’s been a net exporter for a decade due to all the fracking. Though they import like 10% of what’s used from Canada, they export double that as LNG.
Fossil fuels are used to make the electricity for your electric car. The trucks that supply those plants run on fossil fuels. The trucks your grocery gets delivered from uses fossil fuels.
Unless you live solar off grid, You cant get away from it costing you.
Maybe where you live.
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My diesel emergency storage canisters are ripe for rotation anyway
EV owners are simple folk
