Sure we ran out of corn, but then we realized we had all this seed corn for next season.

The naysayers and sky is falling group told us “you can’t just eat your seed corn” but you should have seen the shocked look on those smarty pants faces when we easily turned the seed corn into breads and cakes and porridges.

Poor fools seriously thought you couldn’t actually eat seed corn. Now we are having a lovely time with full bellies! They keep asking about what we will do when it comes time to plant, but that isn’t for months and we are hungry now.

But that would require planning for the future. Those in charge of everything in the US haven't practiced that particular skill in years. Short term profits for the here and now > long term profits for the future. This is the inevitable result.

There are things that can be done to curb demand without cutting travel itself, like lowering speed limits for fossil cars.

But the right wing political machine runs on the opinion that stuff like that is all left-wing, and that right-wing means unlimited cheap gasoline.

"Reality has a well-known liberal bias" and all that

yeah cuz the lobby worked so well to fight trains in cities as well as cross country. i was working a job in a city 3 hours from my city for 6 months. i drove home on the weekends to have family time. i had to waste 6 hours of my weekend driving to and from instead of just hopping a train and taking a nap or reading piefed or just looking out the window enjoying the view.

fuck the oil lobby. they ruined a lot of things that could have been great for us in the make of money.

In the UK prices have barely moved

Sounds like I should expand my rice stockpile, only got around 10kg currently.

Don't worry to offset the oil being expended Trump will find another country to invade and take their supplies instead, America first remember?

The answer to this in capitalism is Keynesian economics. Raise tariffs to reduce demand and redistribute that money to everyone (through public works; lowering other taxes; universal basic income; or literally burning the money to reduce inflation and make people richer in proportion to their wealth).

Unfortunately, the capitalism the US government subscribes to is centralization of wealth through insider trading on economic shocks. When those tanks run dry and there is an economic crisis, the white house will have the authority to respond to the crisis. It will communicate its planned response to favored investors, allowing them to make the right investments to profit off the crisis, while investors who don't have the white house's favor have to guess and will therefore end up transferring wealth to those with better information through the stock market.

Elon Musk is a trillionaire because he has the white house's favor, and so insider trading on government policy has exploded his wealth. When these oil reserves run dry, the white house will choose some response, and whatever that response is the white house's clients will be in the right place at the right time to make a profit.

The price of it has barely changed here