The Impending Petrocalypse 5 things that will change drastically

Fuel scarcity

           

                 Fuel is the next best thing since oxygen. Its not called power for nothing.

People are calling it the Petrocalypse; the almost non-existent supply of fuel to meet daily needs from cooking to flying to keeping businesses afloat.

In Nigeria, our lives revolve around fuel. It’s amazing how fuel made from stuff that died millions of years ago could mean so much life today. But this is not a science lesson.


Because most of our daily activities revolve around this, an absence of fuel means total collapse, shutdown, and a painfully grinding halt. Of course this includes power stations which are run on fossil fuel too.

Let’s pretend for one deep breath that we’ve reached the grinding halt.

Every aspect of our lives will be affected. Except perhaps the cooking part. If you’ve forgotten or haven’t heard of it, you should find out what an Abacha stove is. It might come in handy.
Even though many other things will suffer, five things are most significant:

Transportation: some airlines have grounded domestic operations. People are parking their cars and walking to bus stops to meet rickety buses charging the price of flight tickets for bus fares, or even worse, no buses at all. Bicycles are popular again, and the winners are those trekkers who were trekking all over the country and have now fully gotten used to moving around with their feet.