A couple of Peak Oil diaries, a poorly written ariticle at The Independant, and a weekend of thinking led me to a very startling thought.
If even half of the Peak Oil hysteria comes to pass, the world is going to be left with a brutal choice.
Fuel, or Plastic?
It's no doubt that oil is king, our scociety could not exist without it and everything that we do with it. So what happens when it becomes a choice between shipping oil reserves to the farm belt, or shipping oil reserves to manufacturing sectors?
Is the newest cell phone more important than grain? Is flying to see relatives for the holidays more important than packaging 1000 loaves of bread?
Are we going to see our corporations going to war over this commodity?