"Before this disaster and the war, there are a lot of things that I hadn't really considered or thoroughly understood.. One of the most profound realizations was that the world as we know it was entirely built on oil. All plastics and rubber, all the wiring, all the machines that produce the trinkets, the packaging for the trinket, the gas to ship the trinket, the oil to produce the truck that shipped the trinket, the tires on the truck, everything. That and the fact, that oil is not an infinite resource. Not only is it not infinite, some suggest we may be past "peak oil" (by a few years actually) and are now on the down slope towards depletion. Worse is that the possibility of need exceeding the ability to supply is very real as China and India become more industrialized and consumption continues to grow."
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