>>5470615
>Wrote up a whole thing about this video
>8chan asks me to do the CAPTCHA
>Accidentally lose the whole post in the process
I won't rewrite the whole long thing I had, but after thinking about it for a while, I have my doubts that Varg is the soothsayer that he wants to be on this one. The Oil industry has a lot of fingers in a lot of pies, but for every asshole with a tentacle up it, someone has thought about what to do their asshole was vacant. The energy industry goons, the textile folks, the electronics engineers, et. al., all have thought "Gee, I have this really important thing I make that requires oil. What will we do if we have none?" They must, because if they haven't been, they're not going to survive a post-oil society. I imagine that's the reason for the push towards low-powered computers, electric-powered cards, etc.: without oil, we'll have to make due with alternate sources of electricity, and there's no shortage of palm-rubbers ready to peddle their new alternate energy solution. Electricity might be concentrated in some places more than others as a result, so there might be a disparity between countryside and lucky cities, but we won't suddenly be living in fucking caves and retreating back to hunter-gatherers just because there's no oil. We had society before oil, and after roughly a couple centuries of innovation with it, we will have society after oil. We might lose population, but it won't be fucking Stone Age levels, that's absurd.
A post-oil society will be a paradigm shift, but not a complete upheaval of society. And it certainly won't mean that H. sapiens gets wiped off of the map completely, that's retarded. We can't retreat too far back technologically without someone coming forward with a neat new invention to fix problems. Desperation is, after all, the mother of all invention.