With rising oil prices, if countries decided to curtail their consumption - akin to a directed economy - to reduce purchases to a minimum and even refusing to buy above a certain value, what could that cause?
The first reaction I’d expect would be production cuts to hold the prices but, technically, those are already happening. Demand is just not following.
An interesting thing about diesel trains is that almost without exception the diesel engine is actually used to power generators rather than drive the wheels directly; the drivetrain (ahaha) is actually electric. Partially this is to reduce the number of moving parts, but it’s mostly because of the insane traction of electric motors.
One correction: torque, not traction. Traction is friction, torque is applied twisting.
Aha, that makes plenty of sense. Thanks for the lesson