Titlebook: When Trucks Stop Running; Energy and the Futur A.J. Friedemann Book 2016 The Author(s) 2016 after peak oil.food miles.freight transport aft

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When Trucks Stop Running978-3-319-26375-5Series ISSN 2191-5520 Series E-ISSN 2191-5539

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Who Killed the All-Electric Car?,, and planes. It should not escape our notice that there are very few electric trucks and no electric ships or planes. Later in this book, we will explore those possibilities, but for now, suffice to say they are not so easily electrified (Long .).

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When Trucks Stop Running, America Stops,Trucks aren’t going to all stop running at the same time as in a dystopian movie or novel. But since fossil fuels are finite, if a renewable way to run trucks isn’t found, they will stop. As a thought experiment to appreciate how important trucks are, let’s look at what would happen if they all stopped.

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Shipping Makes the World Go Round,Until fossil fuels arrived, wood from forests determined the wealth and power of nations. Trees were the energy source that industry used to make iron, glass, brick, and ceramics; the fuel to heat and cook with, and also the material for homes, barns, furniture, tools, fences, barrels, wagons, and hundreds of other products.

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The Oiliness of Everything: Invisible Oil and Energy Payback Time,Just as fish swim in water, but are essentially unaware of it, we swim in oil. You can’t understand the predicament we’re in until you can see the oil that saturates every single aspect of our life. To illustrate how energy permeates society, let’s look at the life cycle of a simple object, the pencil.