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The oil embargo forced the government to ration fuel. Rationing hit the suburbs hard. The suburban economy, wholly dependent on cheap and abundant gasoline suffered a total economic collapse. It became obvious to the crisis managers in the Department of Homeland Security that central distribution centers would have to be set up to deliver food to the growing number of jobless suburbanites. The government urged suburbanites to abandon their homes and move to makeshift quarters in stadiums and shopping malls. Most suburbanites, conditioned to resent big government resisted the orders to leave their homes and instead joined militia groups that ambushed aid convoys, stealing the food and fuel destined for the cities and central food aid distribution centers.
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[2012, six years on, at the peak oil production level. The post peak oil downslope can start any time soon. There is no equivalent replacement for oil, neither in quality nor in quantity. So-called "renewable energies" depend on oil for manufacturing and maintenance of power plants. When will agricultural and industrial production start declining, after the onset of the downslope? How quickly will globalisation be rolled back, for lack of fuel for transportation? What will the workforce do, once entire industries disappear for lack of energy and raw materials?] |