re: #178 Bagua

Agreed. But not pumping from existing wells. We’d still have loads of oil, we’d just pay more for it.

No… stop now… life would be different and many of the advances that we take for granted would not be available. My point is socieity would not have the look that it does now, that we would likely live in self sustaining agrarian communities, producing foodstuff, clothing, and commodities locally as much as possible since trucking in vegetables from South America or shipping cheap consumer goods from China would not be effective. We might be living and working in buildings that simply used windows instead of air conditioning. There would likely be more use of mass transit, whether rail lines or other alternatives used instead of singular use of personal vehicles. Alternatives would have likely been developed, such as cotton for insulation for wiring as was the practice early on. Similarly, man has been pretty good at filling in the gaps by creating new technologies. There was a lot of early development of fuels such as hydrogen that was dropped due to the prevalence and economy of using petroleum. My opinion is that society would have continued to develop, not as easily or quickly, but possibly in different directions. Probably less affluent, but possibly more self-sustaining.