Posted on 01/16/2011 3:54:15 PM PST by blam
Sounds like it’s going to be Black Friday everyday at the local supermarket. Those stampedes aren’t going to be fun.
We are a net exporter to other countries so I view this as their problem.
Still, if people don’t have at least a month worth of food stored then they are just plain dumb.
In our house we are very well set on this issue.
bttt
For more than 50 years the Federal Governments “Cheap Food for Consumers”, more commonly called “The Farm Program”, has kept our food surpluses at mountainous levels and food prices at levels lower than ever known in the entire history of the world.
There may be a blip, for a year or two, but we are destined to suffer the rest of our lives with the cheapest, the best, food mankind has ever suffered.
Prepping is now even on Popular Mechanics!
Rise of the Preppers: Survivalists Get a Makeover
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“As a truck driver hauling produce and food up and down the West Coast, Tom Martin knows first-hand how vulnerable the U.S. food supply is to disruption. “I know what our supply chains are like,” he says. “I know grocery stores rely on just in time services; they only have three days worth of food in any grocery store.”
In a disaster, that food will be gone in less than a day, and if you don’t have food stored up, you’ll be stuck, says Martin, who is one of a growing number of “preppers,” or people who are prepping for large-scale disaster. The American Preppers Network, an online forum Martin started in 2009 that quickly grew to 4000 members in nearly all 50 states. “
Seems that most urban people are gonna hurt the most.
Probably.
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“Food” for thought, don’t bother storing food unless you have the means of protecting it.
I’m working on a plan that uses ethanol extracted from gasoline to make into corn.
I’ve seen how they shop. A single medium sized bag of groceries every other day. Basically what they can carry on public transportation.
I shop by the truckload and garden for the year.
I’ve got a 35 gallon sealed plastic tote in the garage full of dry beans, peppers and tomatoes. Next year I hope to triple that.
“I’m working on a plan that uses ethanol extracted from gasoline to make into corn.”
You better have some place to put all of that water.
Very true. That's why you need to store copious amounts of lead too, and make sure delivery systems are in top working order.
Add the so-called Food Safety Act to the list of culprits. I continue to believe that the real intent of this bill was to drive the local producer out of business. Control of the food supply by FedGov and crony capitalists (the latter I refuse to consider to be true capitalists).
LOL.
How Many U.S. Senators Does It Take To Screw A Taxpayer?
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"The true cost of the ethanol boondoggle is hidden from the public. The mandates, subsidies and tariffs take place out of plain view. The reason blenders (and gas stations) will pay the same for ethanol is because they can sell it at the same price as gasoline to consumers. A consumer will pay the same for ten gallons of E10 as for ten gallons of gasoline even though the E10 contains a gallon of ethanol. Consumers pay the same for the gallon of ethanol for three reasons. (1) They don't know there's ethanol in their gasoline. (2) There is often ethanol in all the gasoline because of state requirements, so they have no choice. (3) They never know the ethanol has only 67% the energy of gasoline and gets them only 67% as far. The result is that drivers always pay much more for ethanol energy than for gasoline energy, simply because they pay the same amount per gallon. When gasoline prices are $3.00 per gallon, Joe Six-pack pays $4.50 for the same amount of ethanol energy."
This is a good calculator for how much food you really need to have.
http://lds.about.com/library/bl/faq/blcalculator.htm
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