AdamB wrote:Fortunately, unlike fuels made from crude, the link in terms of price increases in the greater economy tends to be inflationary, rather than a near direct correlation
Whatever that means. For instance, if you are a commercial airline pilot but you drive an EV, sustained high oil prices will tank the airline industry and challenge your livelihood. Or if you drive an EV but you still rely on fuel oil in the wintertime. There is going to be somewhat of a domino effect of high oil prices rippling through the economy, maybe not as severe as Chris Martenson and his Crash Course thinks, but it's still there.
I'm pointing that out not to discourage anyone from buying an EV, just challenging the simplistic notion that buying one is all you need to do to guarantee peak oil salvation.
Our individual future security is really tied on what people do
en masse. If people respond to oil price pressure by shifting towards EVs, then it will relieve that knock-on effect. If they respond by chanting "drill baby drill" and feeling like it's their god given right to roll coal, then believe me, your life will be made worse in more indirect ways even if you don't have to face the pain at the pump.
You can follow that line of thinking further, of course. I would say the few people out there with mature permaculture doomsteads will have trouble if hardiness zones keep shifting, invasive insects and forest fires blaze through, freak droughts, floods, and frosts, etc... all because the rest of us 8 billion plus continue to wreck the biosphere. We all share the same earth.
Because of all this, I can't really be so cocky and self-assured about my individual preps or adaptations.