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I’ve wondered before about what would the effect be on the average working slob if instead of a tax on fuel and energy, it was subsidized? If the federal government eliminated all subsidies(including welfare and SS) except one, and transferred all that subsidy money to fuel/energy, what would the effect be? I realize some people would suffer horribly from lack of welfare and social security benefits. And fuel consumption would skyrocket until prices brought down the demand, but then profits in the fuel industry would skyrocket. Everyone and his brother would want into the fuel industry and fuel production would expand like magic, thus bringing down costs.

To be fair, the subsidies would have to be spread around to all forms of energy, not just fossil fuels. Heck, we could even dump heavier subsidies on the other forms...hydro, wind, nuclear, etc. And also research on batteries, hydrogen, nuclear fusion, etc.

At some point, we need to get people to understand that once society progresses to a certain level of technology, energy production becomes everything. As it stands, our bodies are literally made of petroleum. Our food is petroleum and sunlight converted to digestible forms. In the old days it was merely sunlight converted to digestible forms. But today’s level of world population and standard of living, we are required to utilize petroleum.

Fertilizer, insecticides, refrigeration, transportation, packaging, lubricants, solvents, coatings, plastics, seals, tires, hydraulics, composite materials, synthetic fabrics...none of these things exist without petroleum. It’s as necessary to human life as air water and sun.

You got it.

Starve the nation of petrolium and you will effectively kill it’s industry. And with all these Mexicans flooding over, all the people on social programs suddenly hungry, what does everyone think will happen? Givernment will have no money for social handouts, they will have nobody to tax.

Hell on earth will happen.

I don’t think people realize just how fast society can collapse. They think it will be a slow downward spiral.
It can happen overnight, within a week we could have looting, within a month total civil war.