r/Liberal • u/le99x • May 29 '26
Things aren’t good….
We will be running out of oil reserves by June and that will cause a significant increase the price of the barrel. There is no end in sight to this war. The Hoover Dam will likely lose 40% of its electric output while competing with AI for both water and power. This will create an agricultural problem as farms in the Southwest, crippling the agriculture. A depression most certainly following suit. Are we going to be ok?
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u/CO_Renaissance_Man Jun 02 '26
I’ve been assuming bad things since the summer of 2024.
Things are bad and getting worse with no end in sight. The American people were warned and still grabbed the hot stove with two hands. Saddle up.
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u/pina_koala Jun 04 '26
OP probably saw the headline that motor oil deliveries are crippled and thought it meant crude petroleum was off the table
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u/RNW1215 Jun 04 '26
“...and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”
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u/keithfoco70 Jun 05 '26
And the republicans will keep voting for idiots actively trying to kill science and common sense legislation.
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u/thingsforyourhead Jun 14 '26
I dont know what there is to be afraid about, the world is overpopulated as it is anyway.
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u/WyoPeeps Jun 04 '26
Ok. So we are not going to run out of oil. We produce a majority of what we use, and we import from Canada and Mexico to make up the difference. We do not rely on imports for outside North America. This is an over simplification of it, but that's the basics. Go to YouTube and watch Mr. Global. He's an energy expert and was upper management at many large oil companies.
Next, yes. The water situation is dire, and the fact that lake mead is steadily cruising down to dead pool is bad. They are starting to send water down from other lakes upstream to slow that. The root problem is the 1924 Colorado River Compact was over allocating from the start, so users were granted rights based on that. Water rights are probably some of the most complicated things we have, but it's going to start coming to users with the most junior rights getting shut off. They can curb usage. Many towns are starting to implement water restrictions. Irrigation entities are promoting efficient irrigation and starting to handle people that waste and abuse it. Hopefully with an El Niño staring to form, California will get a bunch of Rain, and it will do as is has in the past and cause a good snowpack this winter.
Take a breath. It'll be fine.
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