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Many challenges exist when there aren’t enough oil supplies. For example, consider North Korea. After the Korean War, the USSR helped North Korea develop modern agriculture. When the USSR collapsed, the flow of cheap oil suddenly dried up. Agricultural machines had to be put out of service. A return to traditional cultivation methods was aggravated by over-fertilized land, and the proportion of people employed in agriculture was increased from 25% to 35% to compensate for the loss of 80% of the agricultural machines. Despite this, harvests dropped by 60% between 1989 and 1998.
From;http://energyskeptic.com/2017/german-military-peak-oil-summary/

This post compares  the price and performance of the Mercedes B class all electric and 180d dieselcars. In this summary the subsidies and taxes have been stripped out. The all electric costs 39% more and has only 14% of the range of the diesel. Using these metrics, the diesel is 10 times better than the electric car. The 104 mile range of the electric car really confines its use to a daily commute or city runaround which somewhat devalues the 8 second 0-62 mph acceleration. Stripping out taxes on fuel, the running costs per 100 kms are 249p (electric) and 159p (diesel). Contrary to popular belief, electric vehicles (EVs) are considerably more expensive to run. Zero tail pipe emissions (NOx, PM2.5 and CO2) is the clear advantage that the all electric version has. The question then is zero tail pipe emissions worth the extra cost and reduced performance?
From;http://euanmearns.com/mercedes-b-class-electric-and-diesel-cars-compared/

If you Google it, right now the planet earth has about 80 years worth of uranium fuel. and right now the nuclear energy proponents are suffering a mental breakdown whenever anybody mentions this fact in their presence.

and, no, wind and solar are so unstable that they’ve made nuclear energy attractive again… after an almost 30 year with no new reactors.

sorry. Geothermal is the only long-term solution we have, and it is orders of magnitude more dangerous than nuclear energy.

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