#Oil201: 2/27
…“When energy prices spike, entire systems can become fragile and often break because oil’s been so cheap, pretty consistently. The economic logic has been to imagine and then engineer thousands of mechanical processes around that cheapness.
The industrial evolution is really the story of adding hundreds or thousands of units of fossil energy to tasks that humans used to do by hand…
Jonathan Schofield
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