prioritize lifeboat items part 1

PRIORITIZE LIFEBOAT ITEMS

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Prepping for Y2K ( to mostly include research, except for a single period one year prior when I saw increased pay and put a LOT of money into supplies ) I was finally able to abandon my previous Mormon/’50’s Fallout Shelter inspired limited stockpile and begin to think about systems wide collapse instead of the localized immediate survival preps of limited utility ( which assumed a rapid recovery no matter the event.  I actually woke up, smelled the rancid future and assumed real world reality rather than prepper/militia fantasy was the nightscape to come-I don’t know what reading prompted this reversal of nearly twenty years of dogma, but I’ll just credit Gary North for his public service work here ).  I went from a home centric to civilization centric view.  After that, things got a lot easier on the frugal front, because not only did I abandon a lot of unnecessary preps ( why stock propane or propane accessories if the wells will forever more stop pumping?  Why stock semi-auto’s if no ammunition will ever again be made?  Why worry about precious metals if trade will never exist in my lifetime as the Dark Ages will last forty plus generations? ), the number of things needed also declined.

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If our future is brutish and short, luxury items and expensive toys are certainly not very important.  Just as a cancer patient knows he has very few months left to plan and prep for his families future, and on very limited funds, so too must you view the oncoming collapse as an impetus to get the hell off your ass and quickly see to the very basics.  You can’t time the collapse, and there is nothing saying it will happen tomorrow.  Yet at the same time there is nothing saying you still have five or ten or twenty years cushion ahead.  So you prioritize what is the most important and what needs immediate attention.  You are in effect just notified that a forest fire will be at your front door in twenty minutes.  You need fifteen of those in driving time.  What do you grab?  The house will burn, so you must prioritize those items that cannot be replaced.  In our case, you are at the end of the Oil Age ( as analyzed ad nauseam already, it is patently obvious that the Industrial Age has already taken a Big Squishy ) and there is a limited amount of time to grab those items that only the Petroleum Industry can provide.

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Again, we’ve talked about this many times before.  But if you are looking at this from a limited time collapse event you aren’t grasping the finality of oil and all it provides.  We have already seen the end of cheap and energy rich oil, over ten years ago.  Since then more and more of our oil is dirty and returns very little in the way of net energy, and a lot of it isn’t even REAL oil but substitutes such as tar sands.  Over FIFTY years ago we saw Peak Discovery ( ever since then we discover less and less new oil, and for some time now we are discovering even less than what we are using, AND all discoveries are of smaller and smaller reserves ).  Yes, Virginia, the age of oil is winding down.  Already as a nation we are abandoning one petroleum rich activity/item after another to compensate.  That is what the race to the bottom quality wise is about.  From manufacturing jobs to service.  From metal to plastic.  From gas guzzlers to Batteries On Wheels.  From warehouses to JIT.  From houses to Black Mold Boxes.  From higher education to PC Indoctrination institutions.  From cash for advanced medical to lifetime debt from lawyer proof tests and symptom masking drugs.  From nutrition to Frankenfood.

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NOW is the time to stockpile oil age products.  While they are cheap and available.  Just like oil ten years ago.  Now, while they are of marginally useful quality.  You want to wait for wheat to go total GMO like corn has, before you buy any?  Or how about you wait for it to experience shortages like rice did six/seven years ago?  Does that sound like a valid strategy?  You should maybe wait for another global heat wave and crop failure before you buy?  What’s the matter for you ( sorry, almost through the seasons of The Soprano’s-I’m starting to think in YankeeSpeak )?  Shortages, quality decline and higher prices are all indicative of an item on the Endangered Species List ( rice will never stop being grown, but cheap and abundant rice is another matter.  Or, look at lentils.  They used to barely be more than grain in price.  Now, after eight years, they just keep going up in price ).  You want expensive food?  Smallholders will always be able to plow a field with mules and produce grain and ship it by wagon.  For half of your wages you can still eat, just like most of the Third World in slums must do.  They are not allowed to farm the countryside, as those areas are for commodities to export-not for the local population.  Wait for sea trade to stop and see the many revolts and revolutions.  Right in the spot you retired to in your tropical paradise.  You want to go to Panama or Guiana to avoid the collapse?  It will follow you there.  Just get some swamp land in Florida or Louisiana ( with a boat to survive the floods ) if you want to avoid freezing weather.  It will be safer. 

( moving to a foreign country to Survive And Thrive?  Too much money has made your brain go soft.  You want way too much crime, a language you can’t understand, high prices to live in a ghetto, tropical diseases, gun control while surrounded by enemies and deadly revolution in the near future?  Just move to New Orleans ) 

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Since you can’t time the collapse you must assume tomorrow is BSD ( Big Squishy Day ).  So what must you grab for your lifeboat items?  Obviously, mechanized petroleum input grains.  Lots and lots of grains.  Plastic storage containers for grains.  And grain grinders.  None of these can be duplicated ( right now, a YEARS worth of grain is 1/10^th your monthly income.  In the near future, one MONTHS worth will be between ½ and ¾ of your monthly income, if indeed you have an income.  All that stored silver wasted on food when you could have simply stockpiled it cheaply now.  $100 now, $8,000 tomorrow.  That is a heck of a good return on investment ).  Continued tomorrow.

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