Dammit Australia, don't break the bank, those oil companies have other things they need to spend that money on.
How would modern infantry react to the loss of all that support though?
Scenario: Peak oil leads to old tactics in war?
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Daniel Johnson
Solar-powered drones and Zeppelins should still be possible, right?
Brody James
It will be nice if they invest in nuclear powered cars because they can last for decades without a refueling. That will destroy the petroleum companies.
I really wish Straya and Kiwi have unique flags so we don’t get mistaken for wrong countries.
Nolan Ross
YOU COULD TURN JEWS INTO FUEL FOR YOUR PANZERS!
Just imagine what would happen if Russia and Saudi-Arabia suddenly lost all of their international power. And also what would happen with the economy of the USA if the petrodollar died overnight. It also means that sanctioning a country wouldn't be that effective, because even a landlocked one could be independent of outside energy sources. This technology really does have the power to change the world. Just not the way hippi faggots would make you think.
Why don't you just conquer them already?
Owen Lopez
You build fucking railways (also waaaayyyy older than internal combustion engine).
The simple fact that we even consider using cars and trucks to move long distance is baffling when you compare it to the energy efficiency of rail transport. It was only achievable by using oil that was extremely cheap to harvest… which is what is running out and which production has peaked in 2008 and has been downside ever since (and it's easy to harvest because it's easy to find… so we know there aren't any anymore with a 99,99% certainty), doesn't mean that we're gonna "run out of oil" but we're definitely are running out of CHEAP oil.
So oil based transportation and power generation IS GONNA DIE because it's gonna be economically unsustainable because it was an economical bubble in the first place based on a really dumb idea.
The whole thing of "going green" HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ECOLOGY.
The whole thing is a scheme of DISGUISED SUBSIDES to whole pangs of industries that gorged themselves on cheap oil for a century and are now using TAX MONEY to make the investments they should have done 30 years ago when it was clear that all the cheap oil sources had been found, production had plateau'd and the only way left was down (but energy was still cheap, so it was the time to do it).
Ryder Sullivan
Shit mate, my bad, sorry. Is there anything stopping you guys from going back to your original flags? There's no way to confuse those.
As for nuclear powered cars do you mean electric cars charged from a 100% nuclear power grid? Or cars with an on-board nuclear reactor? Because reactor powered cars sounds like a great way to turn any riot/terror attack/DUI/generic car crash into a dirty bomb.
Hunter Powell
Peak oil doesn't mean oil has run out. It just means that we have likely passed the zenith of oil production on this planet. The military will be the very last thing to run out of oil. The last drop of oil on Earth will likely become rocket fuel for some ICBM.
As for your scenario:
As aesthetic and philosophically enlightening they were, mass formations are never coming back. We aren't suddenly going to forget how to do rifling or how to build a machine gun. Neither of those need oil and have existed for longer than oil-powered combustion engines. Even a Maxim gun makes mass formations utterly untenable for anyone that isn't Chinese. And that gun was working with black powder for about a decade.
Realistically, warfare would be about early WW1 levels, assuming nobody can figure out a way to be fast enough with horses to bypass fortifications and that electric cars of good enough specs can't be produced either. We may see WW1 fortifications defeated by short-distance electric cars towed to the frontline by horses, then used to ferry men into battle quickly.
Keep in mind, an electric grid needs constant upkeep and I doubt we'd see rural areas with electricity in your scenario.
Jaxon Powell
You seem to forgot that computers don't need oil to work, therefore we could design some bretty nice steam engines. Imagine a world of steam-electric vehicles!
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Hunter Reed
Both.
Make the dirty bomb illegal and the penalty for this crime is immediate death without the trial for the bomber and his/her whole family. Hang the bodies across the lights along the roads defer the people from being stupid.
Nathan Scott
Except that the cars reactor is just a dirty bomb waiting to happen. All it takes is any disruption of the (incredibly finicky) systems that keep the reaction under control.
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That's a meltdown on Main Street
That's a meltdown on Main Street
That's a meltdown on Main Street
That's a meltdown on Main Street
Even if you're OK with the engine suddenly being something that an ordinary guy can't work on in his garage rot in hell for that by the way every city on the planet would have a few dozen areas sectioned off (and a few hundred citizens needing Potassium Iodide) every week. At that point it might actually be cheaper to just add Prussian Blue to the water system. Or we could put that funding into going Nuclear with the power grid and publicly teabagging anti-nuke activists. If you're worried about the range then add solar panels to the roof of the car to extend the range, and build decent recharging infrastructure.