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Originally Posted by DeepIron
I really wonder if people truly understand how dependent the Human Race is on petroleum? Consider plastics... petroleum-based products... lubricants and a number of other polymer products are derived from crude oil...
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Compared to the ammount of oil that gets burned for energy production and for keeping vehicles on the gorund, in the air and on the oceasn running, the ammount of oil used for the kind of productions you mentioned is harmlessly small. I have no numbers and I do not care to search for it now, but I remember to have read like this repeatedly. If somebody says it would be not more than 5%, I would believe it, unprepared as I am right now.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
The list of yours is not complete, of course. Add vital things like fertilizers, pharmacies, insecticides to it, and you are in the realm of not only items of comfort, but essential items of survival for millions and hundreds of millions of people. the list of horror getting opened without oil starts with mass starvations, leads over epidemics caused by insects, and ends at contient-wide wars with all the grim terror they bring. and that's just what I can come up with when giving it only a shallow thought.