In Africa the rural peoples use wood for their fires. I enjoy a good campfire as much as the next man. But I've seen whole areas as far as the eye can see, denuded of trees. It goes pretty fast.
I've been researching oil / pipelines/ refineries and so on for my latest book. It does not look good for places like NY and New England - the infrastructure is ridiculous vulnerable and there is not much of it.
Even Atlanta, which is much closer to the sources of petroleum products; got kicked in the ass twice in the last year or so, when one (ONE!) pipeline had problems. Within a couple days regular gas was not to be found and the others had shortages. I would image that problem propagated itself further north since the same pipeline supplies them as well as us.
Take a stroll through Wiki and you get the idea our infrastructure was created by people with no sense of what 'redundant' means.
Thus I'd suggest saving the wood for those 'just in case' moments.
Talbot
I've been researching oil / pipelines/ refineries and so on for my latest book. It does not look good for places like NY and New England - the infrastructure is ridiculous vulnerable and there is not much of it.
Even Atlanta, which is much closer to the sources of petroleum products; got kicked in the ass twice in the last year or so, when one (ONE!) pipeline had problems. Within a couple days regular gas was not to be found and the others had shortages. I would image that problem propagated itself further north since the same pipeline supplies them as well as us.
Take a stroll through Wiki and you get the idea our infrastructure was created by people with no sense of what 'redundant' means.
Thus I'd suggest saving the wood for those 'just in case' moments.
Talbot