Yea, once I started thinking about the obvious kinds of things you mention, I couldn't take the article's premise seriously any more.
Re:What if Gas Cost $100/gal?
by aaronblohowiak on Tuesday May 27, 2008 @02:56PM
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don't forget where our fertilizer comes from.
Eventually we'd be able to re-establish some kind of civilization (pseudo-steampunk?) with a severely reduced population, but there'd be all sorts of bad stuff to happen in between now and then.