Have you noticed gasoline prices!?!

I haven't. Sorry, but not truly sorry, I recognize I live a rather absurdly fortunate life which allows me to organize it in a way that doesn't require a car, but I've been hearing news about tremendous oil price fluctuations. The reality, I know, is that much of our, the world's, infrastructure necessitates transportation by burning up dead dinosaur bits. We're addicted to energy.

What happens when you cut off an addict's supply? It gets ugly. The addict will do anything, ridiculous things, to get the fix. When the addict is the world and the fix is another shot of oil, "things" will include suspending sanctions on one country that attacked another sovereign country on only perceived, or concocted, provocation. I'd say Putin loves the US and Israeli assault on Iran, despite active negotiations, twice, except that it is probably limiting the supply of drones for his own megalomaniac attacks.

Addiction can also be more subtle. One of the reports I heard mentioned how the lack of a petroleum based ingredient in plastic bags is causing problems for South Korea. Their system requires all trash be placed in plastic bags purchased from the government. I know some municipalities here use the same scheme as a means of funding waste disposal. The report about South Korea went on to say that people needed these bags to throw out anything, "like food".

Um, err, I have some radical ideas. Why not eat your food? If you're not bagging your poop, problem solved! As a bonus, you won't need the petroleum based fertilizer and energy to grow, harvest, transport, store, and cook the food that was going to end as bagged trash. We might, just might, need to curb our energy addition. Following the model of Alcoholics Anonymous, the first step is to admit that you have a problem. Hello, my name is Salem, and I'm an energy addict. Now I'm going to use a little energy to go ride a bike.

Now when I see one of these bumper stickers, 

I think, 

No, eating predates agricultural by eons!