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so what are you going to do when there is no more petrol at all?

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Orangejuicemarathoner · 25/09/2021 13:02

All these people all over the media and social media saying why they personally need petrol over other people, because their job is more important/their need is greatest/they have no alternative, or whatever.

They don't seem to realise that petrol is expected to run out completely in their life time anyway. 4-5 decades, most projections, although it is likely to become unavailable to private citizens a long time before that, maybe 20-30 years before.

What are these people planning to do then?

What are these people planning to do if the country does run out next week, or next month, or next year, any of which is possibly after Brexit, and what are they planning to do in a world or a country without petrol?

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CtrlU · 25/09/2021 22:46

What are you going to do?

And if nothing as you don’t drive - then this isn’t your issue to get involved in.

So tired of these petrol threads. If you need to get petrol get it. If you don’t - shut up and mind your business

RedRiverShore · 25/09/2021 22:51

Lots of fuel virtue signalling going on at the moment, why am I not surprised.

Viviennemary · 25/09/2021 23:00

There is petrol. Its just not being delivered because of shortage of lorry drivers. And idiots filling up petrol cans. Why is this even allowed.

BoreiPuriHagafen · 25/09/2021 23:12

I don't have a car and have never learned to drive so it won't really make any difference to me, other than reducing air pollution.

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Orangejuicemarathoner · 25/09/2021 23:17

@blacksax

What an utterly batshit thread.

If the country is out of fuel next week, then I'll have to stay at home. My work is too far away to walk or cycle, there are no trains and the buses won't be running.

And no, my job can't be done from home, it requires my physical presence. Although if we are getting no goods in, and can't send orders out... I won't have a job to go to.

This is exactly what I mean.

Why have we allowed ourselves to base our lives on cars and petrol?

Yes another person saying they cannot function without it

But we will all have to function without it permanently in the near future

so we need to change our way of life to adapt to that reality

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NantesElephant · 25/09/2021 23:29

Yes I agree - people will have to live near work or on a reliable public transport route in future if they can’t work remotely.

XenoBitch · 25/09/2021 23:29

It is not suddenly going to vanish overnight and leave people with petrol cars, fucked. It will be gradually phased out, and people will adapt.

NantesElephant · 25/09/2021 23:31

Petrol and diesel vehicles will stop being manufactured and running them will get progressively more expensive and the fuel more difficult to obtain.

JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon · 25/09/2021 23:53

I have invented the ultimate in green transport. I will be removing the wheels from my car and replacing them with large hamster wheels.

I will have a team of six hamsters per wheel.

XenoBitch · 26/09/2021 00:00

@JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon

I have invented the ultimate in green transport. I will be removing the wheels from my car and replacing them with large hamster wheels.

I will have a team of six hamsters per wheel.

Nah, use toddlers and lure them with Pom-Bear crisps. You will be zooming along Grin
NotMyCat · 26/09/2021 00:20

Electric isn't going to work for everyone
Blocks of flats
Allocated parking nowhere near where you live
The million terraced houses near me where you take your chances parking and can't park near your house
My parking space is the opposite end of the street to where I live

For everyone to have electric cars there would have to be some massive changes

onlychildhamster · 26/09/2021 00:30

@NotMyCat are you in a city? Where I live, it's mainly flats and terraced houses. I am in london z3 and as of 25 October, we will be part of ulez. We were very nearly in the congestion zone before it was dropped. I can foresee in the next decade, it might be null impossible to drive in my area even though it is technically a suburb so the problem of electric charging points isn't an acute one

NotMyCat · 26/09/2021 00:41

@onlychildhamster a bit of an odd one! It's a city but a small one and I don't live in the centre. Up north so lots of terraces/back to back housing, roads with not enough parking or restricted and then lots of surrounding countryside

NotMyCat · 26/09/2021 00:43

Oh and not enough bloody buses! I live on a bus route but to get to work I would have to go into the city (the opposite direction), back out the city bus station to work and then do a 15 min walk. So probably a good 90 mins for a 5 mile trip

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Orangejuicemarathoner · 26/09/2021 08:32

@XenoBitch

It is not suddenly going to vanish overnight and leave people with petrol cars, fucked. It will be gradually phased out, and people will adapt.
you dont know that.

Even if it stops being available today, forever, no one would be able to claim that it "vanished overnight" - we have already had decades of warning

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Orangejuicemarathoner · 26/09/2021 08:33

@NotMyCat

Oh and not enough bloody buses! I live on a bus route but to get to work I would have to go into the city (the opposite direction), back out the city bus station to work and then do a 15 min walk. So probably a good 90 mins for a 5 mile trip
surely it would be much faster to cycle?
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Zeal · 26/09/2021 08:34

Giant Scalectrix systems.

No need to recharge. The car picks up the power from an electric line running under the road. When installed, there will be other lines added alongside like pipes for milk, broadband cables and gin.

itsgettingwierd · 26/09/2021 08:35

@nothingcanhurtmewithmyeyesshut

By then we will have transitioned to electric cars so will be a moot point.
Exactly what I thought.

In fact - this was already a given so I'm not sure why it's a surprise Confused

countrygirl99 · 26/09/2021 08:41

I can't see this government getting it's collective finger out and sorting the infrastructure needed for electric cars to be universal. The commercially attractive places will be picked up by the private sector, rural/poorer areas will be ignored. Even now our local plan totally ignores the issue.

RedRiverShore · 26/09/2021 08:44

A lot of the country hasn't even got fibre to the property to have decent broadband and that's taking years so I doubt there will be electric lines fitted apart from in some cities.

TroysMammy · 26/09/2021 08:48

I'd have to get up earlier to walk 2 1/2 miles to work.

UsedUpUsername · 26/09/2021 08:51

@Orangejuicemarathoner

All these people all over the media and social media saying why they personally need petrol over other people, because their job is more important/their need is greatest/they have no alternative, or whatever.

They don't seem to realise that petrol is expected to run out completely in their life time anyway. 4-5 decades, most projections, although it is likely to become unavailable to private citizens a long time before that, maybe 20-30 years before.

What are these people planning to do then?

What are these people planning to do if the country does run out next week, or next month, or next year, any of which is possibly after Brexit, and what are they planning to do in a world or a country without petrol?

Whatever. People have been talking peak oil for literal decades at this point. It’s never happened because of extraction breakthroughs.

Higher prices will mean that it’s suddenly profitable to do more extraction that wasn’t financially viable before.

Of course, this takes time so people will suffer while waiting for suppliers to adjust.

UsedUpUsername · 26/09/2021 08:58

I am educated thank you. Some fossil fuel is likely to be available long term, but is unlikely to be used, due to the catastrophic environmental impact

lol ok your ideology is absolutely trumping your education here.

Catastrophic environmental impact … not in your lifetime. Did you even read the IPCC AR5? I did, no claims of an imminent apocalypse, it can be managed as long as we don’t go into some green dark age 😆

NantesElephant · 26/09/2021 09:12

@TroysMammy

I'd have to get up earlier to walk 2 1/2 miles to work.
I’m working from home right now but when I had a 3 mile commute I bought a bike and good wet weather gear. It was great, I lost a stone and felt fitter and more relaxed.
ejhhhhh · 26/09/2021 09:21

@NotMyCat

Electric isn't going to work for everyone Blocks of flats Allocated parking nowhere near where you live The million terraced houses near me where you take your chances parking and can't park near your house My parking space is the opposite end of the street to where I live

For everyone to have electric cars there would have to be some massive changes

Yes, there will be some massive changes, because for all the protestations, the era of the petrol/diesel car is over. The likelihood is quite a significant shift in car ownership, with lots of people not owning their own cars. For lone journeys, self driving vehicles will be pick you up and take you to where you want to go. A bit like Uber, but without the driver!