Also keep in mind that per HW the last time that gas and fuel was part of agricultural production in the US was the spring planting of 1999.
I,.e page 9 "It would be the last one in which gasoline and diesel fuel were major factors for many years"
That implies that agricultural production in the US and distribution of food would be almost all done manually or with horse or ox power from spring 1999on for probably a decade or more.
Like I said - HW goes way way too far in destroying the US - if you follow HW to its obvious conclusion you end up with a depopulated US with maybe 6 percent of its population still alive by the harvest of 2002 with any remaining technology basically gone, no governments of any kind left except maybe around Colorado Springs with a remnant of MilGov forces totalling maybe around a brigade or so, and the US so broken up that it would be finished as a country - i.e. the only possible govt that could arise would be New America and even then it would be a patchwork of various New America's fighting among themselves for the next few centuries
and that flies totally in the face of Twilight 2300AD which the same GDW writers said was where the timeline was headed
thats the conclusion my GM came to after reading it and then deposited his copy along with Kidnapped (both of which he bought at the same time) into the garbage can and said that as far as he was concerned they were not canon - and after I fished it out and read them I could see why he did it
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