> If you're desperate you can always squeeze a peanut or scrape a duck. That sounds terribly expensive. A 1,000% increase in the cost of plastics and lubricant

> If you're desperate you can always squeeze a peanut or scrape a duck. That sounds terribly expensive. A 1,000% increase in the cost of plastics and lubricants won't be fun for anyone. > ...we can make by other means, if we have energy. Hopefully we gather together the political will and launch the anti-misinformation campaigns required to get some form of very-high-capacity non-fossil-fuel-based electricity generation system long before we need to seriously consider "scraping ducks" to get the hydrocarbons we require.