If all the leftists who bitch about "war for oil" were sentenced to live the rest of their lives without any of the things which oil give us. Things like (but not limited to):
Any form of personal motor transport.
Anything that must be shipped by truck, ship, train or airplane.
Modern medicine.
Anything which is manufactured using any kind of petrochemical such as plastic.
Anything manufactured with electric power.
Any kind of food or beverage grown or otherwise produced further away than a man can walk or that a horse drawn wagon can travel.
Modern telecommunications including computers and the Internet.
Any scientific knowledge or technology whose discovery depended upon any kind of advanced scientific instrumentation.
Marijuana grown anywhere other than locally.
Air conditioning in the Summer.
Heating in the winter from any source other than wood, dried dung or coal if they live in an area where coal can be mined without anything but muscle power.
All forms of contraception other than the rhythm method.
All music which cannot be played on acoustic instruments by local musicians or wandering (on foot) minstrels.
In fact anything at all not available before the invention of the steam engine.
Send them back to an era where the average human lifespan was in the neighborhood of 48 years, most women died from complications of childbirth and most children died before the age of five. To an era where doctors thought that mercury was a sovereign cure for almost everything that bleeding wasn't effective for.
Let's see how long they would last.
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