• BlackLaZoR
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    2 months ago

    Fuel would be extremely expensive because we’d drive either on plant oil or alcohol. Possibly at the expense of the food supply

    Edit: Probably industrial revolution would be slowed into a crawl, and the high performance economies wouldn’t develop until the discovery of nuclear power

    • @Olgratin_Magmatoe
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      22 months ago

      Possibly at the expense of the food supply

      To some degree sure, but not in all cases. If you have a tractor that burns wood gas for power but it helps you harvest more crops quicker, it may outweigh the cost of the land used for the trees.