Bulgarians' hope for the future is probably, for the majority, economic growth so they can start living like the rest of us. They may be forced to go without it, but will they shrug their shoulders and go on living in the old way with good grace? When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
I even met someone (now dead) who built a wood-fired engine for a truck during the Continuation War. You can't be me, I'm taken
This is not true of the "West". Our patterns of pre-industrial low energy use are mostly obliterated and inoperable. Bulgaria and romania may want their cars, but they can operate without oil, the west can't. keep to the Fen Causeway