### Comment:
Fuel prices will suck, but fossil fuels go far beyond that. Cheap, reliable energy is needed for heating and air conditioning, refrigeration, farming/fertilizer, medicine, and basically everything else that defines the modern standard of living. Without low-cost fossil fuels, those things become a luxury that poor people can’t afford. And if you then say, “well we’ll just socialize those industries” then it’s like, no we’ve seen what happens when societies go down that road

### REPLY:
what happens when societies go down that road

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