Time-critical cargoes can still go on oil-powered ships when rail is not an option, but most cargoes are not time-critical.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
And meltdowns.
Ans shipping doesn't really consume much oil anyway. Better to build nuclear power plants in the areas where oil is still used to generate power, like the Northeastern United States. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
