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[–] Iamsqueegee@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Opening monologue to The Road Warrior:

My life fades. The vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos, ruined dreams, this wasted land. But most of all, I remember the road warrior, the man we called Max. To understand who he was we have to go back to the other time, when the world was powered by the black fuel and the desert sprouted great cities of pipe and steel — gone now, swept away. For reasons long forgotten two mighty warrior tribes went to war and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel they were nothing. They'd built a house of straw. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked, but nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. Cities exploded — a whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men. On the roads it was a white-line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice, and in this maelstrom of decay ordinary men were battered and smashed — men like Max, the warrior Max. In the roar of an engine, he lost everything and became a shell of a man, a burnt-out desolate man, a man haunted by the demons of his past, a man who wandered out into the wasteland. And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again.

[–] chicagohuman@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So, if I'm understanding this correctly, the Road Warrior took place in a past that was "powered by black fuel." Which suggests that in the future we are actually NOT dependent on oil.

[–] Mesophar@pawb.social 5 points 1 day ago

They don't mention anything replacing the black fuel. Could just be (likely) the future is unpowered altogether.