“the insupportable costs of the shale “miracle,”
Well, he did say the drug underground was active.
Seems he may also be a customer?
I also live in a small town surrounded by farmland.
But folk are not going to thrive on a diet of onions, garlic, cabbage, and hemp.
So the trucks have to continue rolling even if they have to be converted to steam power.
We may avoid this dire prediction by simply refusing in mass to follow the Lib dictat.
We stop letting them tell us what to do and their power is gone.
Generally, the only power people have over you is what you let them have.
Yes, I realize there are exceptions, but if more people en mass stopped obeying unlawful orders from politicians, we’d be freer and better off.
Throw in some Black Angus beef, some dairy, a few chickens for meat and eggs, and some fish and, yes, they will survive on that diet.
The trucks have to run to the factory farms with their inputs and then from the factory farms to the cities to feed the multitudes. People in rural areas only need the things they cannot produce or gather themselves. Salt, sugar, and baking powder come to mind.