‘Half my day’s pay goes to filling up my car now’: diesel crisis ripples across Britain
Submitted 5 days ago by Arwu@programming.dev to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
Submitted 5 days ago by Arwu@programming.dev to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
MBech@feddit.dk 5 days ago
I know it sucks for a lot of people, but just like the oil crisis in the '70s, this will be positive in the long run.
tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 5 days ago
Can you elaborate on how it’ll be positive in the long run? The 70s oil crisis was the effective end of Bretton Woods/Keynesianism and heralded the fuck-awful neoliberal economic order we’ve endured for the last 50 years.
MBech@feddit.dk 5 days ago
The 70’s oil crisis was the start of Europe demanding better fuel efficiency of their cars, and better heat efficiency in their homes. This crisis will likely make people switch to electric cars, the ones who can’t afford to, will need to use public transportation. It could also very well result in less long distance transportation of goods, since they’ll become more expensive.
I’m not psychic, so I don’t know everything that will happen, but it’s not far fetched that oil prices are getting so high, oil fueled power plants will become too expensive to run…