Yup. Getting gas and diesel for heavy machinery will be a must for the recovery effort. If you put every person in the US capable of working at clearing out a ruined or damaged city (or even neighborhood) and had to do it by hand even ignoring the radiation hazards and assuming people didn't die from tetanus, being killed in accidents on the job-site etc. you're talking about decades just for one good sized town to get ruins removed and rebuilt.
Get some heavy machinery in there powered by sweet, sweet shale gas and oil and it becomes feasible again...
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