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North Korea: what happened when the oil was cut off?

Posted on May 30, 2022 by

Preface. All nations will eventually run low and then out of petroleum, so it is worthwhile to see what happened to those countries where oil was scarce first to get glimpses of our own fate and perhaps try to mitigate … Continue reading →

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CAFE standards: 54.5 mpg cars exist, but public prefers gas-guzzling SUVs and trucks

Posted on November 4, 2015 by

[Passenger vehicles sold in 2025 in the United States are supposed to get 54.5 miles per gallon on average.  But they won’t.  It will be closer to 35.4 miles per gallon, as the Union of Concerned Scientists explains in Translating … Continue reading →

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The Great Game and future wars over oil: Will China and the U.S. collide?

Posted on September 30, 2015 by

[ I don’t think we will go to war with China because it would be over before we started it — they’d start a cyberwar and take down our electric grid, and we can’t retaliate because their grid is run … Continue reading →

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