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Maybe you can't but there are people with natural oil springs on their land who could. I don't know any who do and the amount coming from the springs isn't much, but they could.

ethanol fuel is done by a few people at home, it isn't hard, just takes a lot of labor.

Very true. Right now most cars are still petro and so stations are everywhere. The average car is about 12 years old and most poor people will choose to scrap them at around 25, so there are plenty of stations to meet the demand. However in a few years that average will not include enough petro to support as many stations - how will they respond is a question.

in 20 years petro will be a special order thing outside of a few niches. At least by current trends - perhaps some alternative will come and change everything, who knows.

One maybe not. However there are not a lot of airplanes (or pilots) and so it doesn't take too many crashes before people start noticing they can't get airplanes to someplace at all, or if they can they have to book early because they are all full (and soon after they notice seats they have booked get canceled - they won't know it is because the plane crashed, but they know they can't get there)

How long before you can't afford to maintain the diesel? I drove a diesel until rust caused the fuel tank to drop - I could still fix it but that is more than I have time to do myself and the cost is half way to a new car (i bought a 3 year old ev to get something nicer), with there lively being a similar amount of maintenance next year. I miss the ability to haul a 10000lbs but since nobody makes basic trucks anything I can afford was not much better (and thus only a few years from the same rust issues)

even if nobody bought a new car this year, used cars are all getting older and so it won't be long before someone has to buy new just to get anything

We can't even make radio waves that travel that far. Our best radio telescopes focused on something near that we suspect might have life don't have enough power for us to think they can be received by an arbitrarily advanced civilization on the other end (assuming there is that happens to be listening when the signals arrive). And that is stars in our own subarm of the milky way.

Space is just bigger than you can imagine.

Sort of - but there is no reason to think we will ever be able to make something that won't break. Even intersellar is questionable just because the odds of the ship breaking in the time needed are too high.

you can't fathom it because you were raised that way. Different parents / society and you would call those normal and partake.

there have been too many through history to think it is anything else.

Fad. Someone started doing it, and it caught on so no everyone does. The iPod started the iEverything phase. A local car dealer near me uses NameTube.com because they decided they needed a website about the time youtube got a lot press. There are many more things over the years that became a fad for a while, and there will be more.

ML is run by people who are not only communist, but also communists can do no wrong, capitalists can do no right. Just being communist most of us could live with, but the second is a problem. When someone cannot agree things like genocides that various communist governments are a bad it is really hard to have productive conversations.

Arms and legs allowed in are still really bad. You can't run fast in snow, and you are more likely to trip.

I read it for a while a few years ago, I don't remember how far I got it. I do remember realizing that it was just a "number go up for both the hero and the monster" - nothing was really changing/new anymore even though there were more words. A good read for a while, but it gets tedious after a while and so I stopped. There are too many other books our there that are much better. A large part of better is the authors just wrote "the end" when they ran out of original ideas.

In some cases. However most often when there is a stack trace it is because something I didn't expect happened - I can't tell you how we got there or how to correct it because if I knew I would have just had the code do that in the first place. If the error is something the user did though I'd expect a clean error message.