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And you think there won't be 3 more problems cropping up while they get a hold of this one?
As you know I opposed BREXIT. In part, I believed that people underestimated the seismic changes needed. What is happening here is that a society that was dependent on European truck drivers and immigrants to fill up truck driver seats no longer has any. They are just beginning to understand how dependent they were on these to keep everything running. So new solutions are required. Maybe they should pipe the petrol direct from the refineries and get rid of the trucks where possible or maybe they should train up people domestically or even start thinking in terms of robotized driverless trucks. Maybe the move to electric cars should be accelerated. Maybe a great many people should simply keep working from home and cut out the commuting altogether. Maybe they could use trains more to transport the fuel to localities cutting the man-hours for the trucks down. They could build petrol stations directly by the railway to remove any truck usage and pipe it directly from trains instead. In the long-run solutions will be found. But the pain of making this adjustment is very real.
What is interesting here to me is just how dependent a modern economy is on Big Oil infrastructure. We are on the edge of a revolution here. Electric vehicles remove the need for petrol stations as you can just plug in from home. Cycling to work, EBikes, Electric motorcycles could all bypass this need as could driverless electric cars in the coming decades.
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