What's even crazier: Only 20% of the world's oil production is affected. That means 80% are still available.

It would be trivial to save 20% of oil, but we just don't want to.

People are driving just as much. There's no push to home office. No push to make people stop buying crap they don't need. No push to decrease flying or anything at all.

Instead, offices are still uselessly illuminated all night. Useless ad screens are playing at any time of day, burning precious fuel for no purpose.

We still throw away 30-40% of the food we produce. We still don't have a massive push to pivot to renewable energy.

Collectively, we don't care about energy shortages, and politics and companies don't either.

Instead, we just price the poorer nations out of competition. We can afford gas at €2/l, and we don't care that entire nations are collapsing right now because they can't afford fuel at all.