My point exactly. We shouldn’t be exporting it, and we shouldn’t be importing it.
What we call “renewables” currently is not the future because it’s all contingent on having non-renewables to make the “renewables”. We need to somehow invent batteries and solar panels that can be made using nothing non-renewable, but we’re not even close.
There’s more astroturfing for renewables than against it.
“Renewables” aren’t sustainable because they’re made with non-renewable materials.
There is no known replacement for oil. None. It’s in basically everything the world runs on and uses. We need to be producing our own until a replacement is found.
Which party is in government in the UK? Australia?
Good for those living in submarines who couldn’t set their new machine up before going out of internet reception, I guess. Never been an issue for anyone I know.
Apple have been at the forefront of keeping people private for a long time, don’t know what you’ve been doing.
I would much rather my phone simply tell every service and website that I am over 18 than have to provide proof to every one of those sites and services.
This is pretty much the best way that we could hope for age verification to be done, and unfortunately left wing governments around the world are adamant on bringing in age verification to everything to make controlling their citizens easier.
Shocking. More demand without more supply = higher prices.
For decades they’ve been being told that there would be no more polar ice caps, that half the country would be underwater, and all sorts of other doomsday “global warming” stories would happen “in the next 10 years”, and none of them happened after 40+ years, nor are they any closer to happening. At some stage people start ignoring the person crying wolf.
“Climate change” isn’t making anything more expensive. The cost of living caused by ~50% inflation since 2020 is doing that, including insurance. Insurance payouts now cost significantly more because everything costs more, so premiums increase even more significantly.
If the world ran out of oil tomorrow, the world would basically return to the Stone Age. Oil is used to make basically everything you use every day in one way or another, and sunlight no matter how you use it is not a replacement. Good luck making batteries without oil btw. Good luck making the car to put the batteries in without oil too.
It hasn’t even been a month
If they wait till it has been a month there will be no fuel to ration. You ration so you don’t run out, or run out slower.
At the moment no one can afford a house because of 50%+ inflation since the last crisis. The poorest are the ones who have felt this the most. We NEED a recession, realistically one where prices of everything halve to get back to where they should be.
Would it be terrible for a lot of people? Absolutely - but the alternative is absolutely destroying the economy and affordability already.