“This will no doubt appear as a monetary problem – central and local government departments will no longer have the funds to employ the engineers, maintain and replace the equipment and purchase the resources.  And no doubt the majority of us will blame the opposing political team and find ways of claiming that if our team was in charge, things would be better.  But the reality is that as an increasing portion of our available energy has to be used both to secure more energy and to maintain the real wealth that has already been created, less and less is available to such things as economic growth and discretionary consumption.” Tim Watkins, The Thermodynamic Drag, The Consciousness of Sheep, 8.10.2025