War vets take Manhatten: Operation First Casualty

“Expecting some other energy resource to provide energy on the same scale and level of concentration that petroleum does – simply because we happen to want one – is a little like responding to one huge lottery win by assuming that when that money starts running out, another equally large win can be had for the cost of a few more tickets. . . . [T]his is exactly the mentality of current attempts to fuel industrial society by pouring our food supply into our gas tanks.
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 John Michael Greer, The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age