Navies crimped by fuel costs…
There have been a couple stories recently, about the Canadian and French navies curtailing their activities due to high fuel prices. Which sounds like the navy equivalent of the army rationing bullets…
I wonder if a sustained high oil price environment would:
(a) cause nation-states to move away from larger military vessels, or
(b) cause nation-states to shift towards nuclear-powered ships.
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Basically, the curtailing of missions by (presumably fossil-fuel powered) naval vessels suggests that, in ecological terms, these aren’t the “fittest” form of naval force projection in a high-oil-price environment…
…just as the recent data on plummetting SUV/truck sales in the US demonstrates that these aren’t the “fittest” form of transportation in this scenario.