four storage plan book 4

FOUR STORAGE PLAN BOOK 4

Chapter One

Priorities ( continued )

A grain heavy diet is not only traditional ( although not healthy ) but right now it is very inexpensive. It won't be for long, because one day, finally, after the freeze dried is three months out on projected availability and crops are failing everywhere, again ( the Green Revolution barely beat the coming famines in India, Mexico, Africa, probably China and etcetera. And we had a very scary GLOBAL drought a decades ago. Birth rates have declined. They have not declined enough to match oil depletion. Oil IS food ), the hoarding will begin.

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Right now preppers think very highly of themselves. They look in the mirror at that sad wrinkled face, older age delivering man boobs ( for the females, punching bag boobs ), a life of corporate servitude producing the vacant soulless eyes that stare back at them and think, yeah, at least I was smart enough to prepare for a hurricane although Jim tried to warn me about a civilization collapse and I didn't listen but at least I'm more special than the proletariat who prepared not at all. But guess what? Eventually the masses DO catch up to our way of thinking ( which is no more magical than the biblical seven years of plenty ).

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I mean, come on! God himself said, ah, duh, how about seven years of wheat stored up there, chief? It is like trying to claim responsibility for thinking cheating on your spouse was a bad idea. No, God said that ( you know I'm not religious. If you aren't, just think of it as age old cultural dictates so successful ALL societies follow them ). You didn't have an original thought on your own. Jesus, you can't even follow a dinner menu past seven items.

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This isn't the running bear fable. Yes, you are smarter than the bear, and just run faster than your friend. That is being smart. However! You must be smarter than your friend. You must anticipate your friend wanting to be faster than YOU. So, you plan on not just running faster than your buddy, but also hitting him on the side of the knee with a stick so he is momentarily crippled enough that it is guaranteed he cannot outrun you. This is what you must do for the coming die-off, be smarter than everyone else.

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You cannot just be prepared with food. Anyone can do that, solving a problem with money. And a lot of people will have more money than you. In a financial fight over food, you might lose. Just like you might not outdistance your buddy. You need to cheat, to assure YOU are the one outrunning the bear. The only way to do that ( very few of us can become farmers, and ever if we can, time is REALLY running out. It is THE preferred strategy, but you waited too long. And, frankly, farmers need food storage as well. As oil transport fails, your risks of crop failures increase ) is frugal stockpiling.

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Grain is the only way to do that. I strongly suggest wheat. It is only up 25% ( from the lowest price to begin with ), whereas rice is up 40% and beans are up 50%. Your mileage may vary, and this is not the place to argue as I normally would be inclined to do ( just stock what you already eat. You get hungry enough, it won't matter. BUT! Eating familiar food is far preferable, less stress at a time stress could kill ). The point is, get grain. Get a LOT of grain. Calories are the FIRST thing you do. Not luxury, not preference, not what you want but what you can afford.

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Calories are needed, and you need far more than a month, or six months, or a year. You start out at three years, and five is better. You should shoot for seven. There is a LOT of severe decline to get through before we even see the die-off, and you'll need to eat that whole time. Then, you'll always need a stockpile because of crop failures returning to the norm. Right now, oil allows so much extra food that local failures rarely matter. There is surplus elsewhere. Without oil, you WILL see an exponential drop in production.

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No, organic and permaculture will NOT exempt you from that. Because you will not have oil to truck in soil inputs, and your neighbors will no longer be eating from oil, so they compete with you for local soil inputs. No soil survives without more inputs than outputs. Ten thousand years of history prove it, and civilizations rise and fall on it. Everyone should have grain stockpiles. And only a few believe that. But it is simply amazing how imminent starvation focuses the otherwise flabby and unfocused mind. The masses will soon enough figure out Food First.

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You need to be there, preparations complete, before they do wake up. So to be swift, you must be frugal. And grains are the measure of frugal calories. 1500 calories a day will keep you alive and healthy. Perhaps not very productive, but that is a secondary concern right now. First, you plan on staying alive. Until that is complete, no treats for you. NONE. Put on your Big Boy pants, suck it up buttercup, and buy the nasty crappy food. When that is your ONLY food, you will be damn Skippy thankful for it. Squirrels and weeds will NOT keep you alive if there is any competition for them.

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In case you are still confused, COLLAPSE Plan first. You can get that initial one to three months white food first, just to keep yourself from panicking. But as far as serious budgeting, serious investment money, Collapse Plan gets first priority. BUDGET Plan is second, because that is what is going to finance the other two plans ( there is no hope with the Collapse Plan. That money simply must be found or pilfered, diverted or re-prioritized ). And you need to finance that INFLATION Plan. That is the third priority. Because inflation is baked into the cake.

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BUT! System failure can short circuit inflation. That is why COLLAPSE Plan is FIRST. Number One. Uno. Don't confuse probable ( inflation ) with guaranteed ( system collapse ). It took coal and industry and colonization to support one billion people. It takes oil to support seven billion. There is no way around that. And Peak Oil was 2005. Yes, fracking oil is marginally useful ( mostly for the bankers ). But the NET energy is so low its increased volume does NOT replace the lost conventional petroleum. And conventional oil is starting to decline in significant numbers.

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Worse, the economy doesn't last as long as the oil. Our systems start failing not too far into receiving Not Enough Oil. For instance, the military is not failing from poor leadership. The leadership of WWII was no smarter than the politically appointed generals of the Soviet Union. They just Human Wave Assaulted. The military is failing along with the industry that made that dumb leadership successful despite themselves. The financial system is failing, despite record breaking profits, because the systems it supports don't have enough energy to be themselves successful. Bankers are parasites, not producers. You need enough surplus to support a parasite.

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So, yes, guaranteed failure of all our systems. You think you might want to actually beat the Soon To Fail food production system, by buying oil produced food, while you can? Historically, in a market economy, food typically cost about half your wages. Right now, you can take half your monthly wages and buy not one months food, but five YEARS worth. This is a one off opportunity. Do not squander it.

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