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It can hit £500/barrel and my bike will be just fine
It'll affect prices on everything though, because of the transport costs skyrocketing.
Here we produce a lot of food locally, and for energy we mostly rely on renewables. It's pretty good, we haven't been affected as much by the oil and gas prices.
The Gulf produces 20% of the worlds supply of fertilizers. It will have an impact on the global food production if the situation prolongs.
Isn't it mainly Morocco which does so? They have a lot of phosphate.
Ammonia production which use an enormous amount of energy + also need hydrogen that mostly come from gas.
Do you use fertilizer on your locally grown food? Because it's spring time, and large amounts of fertilizer are also shipped out of the Strait of Hormuz
Are you saying you are a farmer and your equipment is electric?
Where do allotments fit in? Not exactly a farmer but I am growing food. Supplement it with a few sacks of grain and that is plenty to survive. Grain is cheap and even if it goes up 10x in cost it's still going to be affordable
I just think that people don’t understand how oil is used for everything. Organic farming, plastics, fertilizer, lubricants, the list is endless. It will affect every part of your life, even if you live on the minimum necessary. The only way you aren’t being affected financially is if you live in an uncontacted tribe in the middle of the Amazonian rainforest where even loggers don’t go.
What does your agricultural machine run on?
Electricity, we've got electric tractors. For electricity charging we got it from solar, wind, water, and nuclear.
Water comes to my house in pipes. Food costs very little and transport is only a small part of that cost too. My house is already here so no transport required there.
The water in the pipes requires a lot of energy. Extraction, cleaning, pumping it around. It will get more expensive with higher energy prices.
Producing food requires a lot of energy. Tractors, harvesters, packaging plants, transport to supermarket. Energy prices will make your food more expensive.
Houses need heating, cooling, repairs.
The cost of almost everything almost everywhere will rise a lot very quickly in the coming months if this mess keeps getting messier (and it is). Fossil fuels and the price of it are deeply embedded in every aspect of life.
All those things are pocket change compared to the cost of housing with rent/mortgage. Fix the mortgage rate and life is easy. If anything inflation is eating away my debt nicely. Now its easy to pay it even on UK minimum wage.
At that price the cost of fertilizer will be astronomical and cause a spike in food prices as farms become unprofitable unless prices go up an order of magnitude to keep up. The moment you bankrupt farms is the moment famine enters the chat.
It's not an order of magnitude, lol.
It will be fine until you have to oil your chain. Then you'll see!
Beeswax
It will be fine until your bees need an oil change.
Ahh, you got me there. Perhaps I should stock up