Gas: The good 'ol days 2229And cheap oil didnt have much to do with the rather deep financial poo some countrys got into as a result of it either, particularly england and germany. The evidence is in on what brought...
Its clearly an example of modern first world economys being robust enough that they can survive that sort of thing fine.
Nope, WW1 had very little to do with oil at all.
Neither did the depression either.
Gas: The good 'ol days 2228Rod Speed Yeah, thinking about it, probably true, because we (the US) really got into WW1 rather late, and didn't stay all that long anyway. Not sure I agree with that, but I...
Sure, the detail is rather different, you dont see the same LA sprawl in western europe for example, but your original claim was clearly that 'how integral oil has been to the housing boom over the decades' It wasnt in western europe which had the housing booms too.
East Germany in spades, and they didnt have anything like the same use of oil in cars there.
Yes, but clearly the Jap building boom had nothing to do with oil. It was always much more about other transport modes, mostly electric trains.
Yes, the detail of say LA is certainly due to the use of oil, but that doesnt mean that other first world countrys didnt see building booms post WW2. Some had no choice with so much of their housing obliterated in the war.
Nothing to do with oil at all really.
Doesnt need to be.
No perhaps about it, perfectly viable for that.
And once that becomes too expensive to use as a transport fuel, and that wont be any decade soon, we can use hydrogen produced by nukes instead.
There wont be any economic collapse, just the usual gradual change from one energy source to another, just like we saw with the move from coal to oil and the change from horses etc to the use of oil etc.
