"TOD seems too often to veer between macro-analysis of trends (if not outright dataless projections), useful as they may be, and anecdotal "here's what's going on in my (typically US or UK) neighborhood" reports."

This is possibly affected by the TOD travel budget, which when I last checked was $0.00.

Ideally we'd have accounts from people in each country or region. Unfortunately the areas first affected by fossil fuel depletion are also the areas lacking internet access.

My wife was on the phone to her family in Odessa, the Ukraine last night. They report that petrol (gas) rationing has now been put in place- fuel can only be bought with ration tokens. Rampant food inflation is also being observed, such that the local market prices, for the like of cucumbers is doubling from one day to the next.