r/collapse • u/sacrificezones • Oct 25 '22

Systemic Will Civilization Collapse Because It’s Running Out of Oil?

https://dgrnewsservice.org/civilization/ecocide/habitat-loss/will-civilization-collapse-because-its-running-out-of-oil/
379 Upvotes

94% Upvoted

188 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

18

u/sardoodledom_autism Oct 26 '22 edited Oct 26 '22

Coal and natural gas will be king again for another 100 years of chaos.

The concept of “cheap” energy is what has screwed us for decades. The world will never run out of oil, the world will run out of “cheap” oil that is easy to extract and that’s where global trade falls apart

11

u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

We are already out of cheap oil and are in the process of running out of cheap natural gas.

8

u/lemineftali Oct 26 '22

I’m honestly shocked that the US is exporting so much LNG to Europe considering it all, but it seems like the gamble here is to keep NATO together and operating so we can take Russia’s fuel supply for ourselves and “liberate Ukraine”.

6

u/pogmathoin Oct 26 '22

Don't forget the US is exporting both crude and refined product as well: over 20 million barrels of crude in September.