2026-09-20 09:19 UTC
…Governments won’t plan for this. And people certainly won’t vote for it, cos they LOVE CARS. But it or something like it will happen anyway.
Because systems adapt to material conditions and then over time people say “Yeah, this is just normal”
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@paninid@mastodon.world 2026-09-20 16:16
@urlyman@mastodon.social 🔥
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@Jeffrey@tooting.ch 2026-09-20 09:30
@urlyman@mastodon.social Must get that old bike out and sort it out. New tyres and tubes as a minimum I expect.
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@Pionir@mastodon.online 2026-09-20 19:44
@urlyman@mastodon.social I agree but one thought - low tech big industrial diesel engines can run on very poor quality fuel (the main design requirement was to run on the left overs of coke from kilns iirc) so I can see alternatives being found like vegetable oil. Hopefully not causing a food shortage. Modern diesels found in private cars that need a quite refined fuel will as you say fall by the way side. That old Peugeot from the 70s will likely be converted to run on chip fat.