A poster with the handle "Engineer Oldenborger" wrote the following comment on a news article about freezing electric vehicles:
"I find it interesting that we have gotten to a point where we expect to be able to operate in the same exact manner over a large range of environmental conditions.
People live in Las Vegas, operate basically the same as those in buffalo, or Miami. Which is all due to abundant, cheap, reliable energy.
Basically the same lives lived in those different locations. If we lose reliable energy, none of those places will function the same."
Exactly.
I have told you before, and I say again, that you are going to see many populous places rendered unliveable as cheap energy becomes harder to come by. The cause and effect will occur for a multitude of reasons.
For example, imagine what home prices will do in hot places when air conditioning becomes scarce, unaffordable, or otherwise curtailed?
What will happen in cold places when those places do not allow wood heat, or wood is not cheap and abundant, and gas, electricity, or heating oil become scarce, unaffordable, or otherwise curtailed?
Long-term consequences can seem obvious yet not be acted upon until it is too late.
Of the choice between a hot place and a cold place, a cold place is preferred for various reasons, so long as there is cheap and abundant firewood and few enough people that inversion is not a problem.
There are ways of heating very cold places with wood. There is no way to cool a place without abundant, cheap electricity unless you build in very expensive and unconventional ways.