thar she blows

THAR SHE BLOWS

One year’s worth of calories costs $120, feed store wheat and Home Despot buckets.  For Y2K, that cost $20 if lucky ( free buckets ) or $33 if not ( nominal fee for the buckets ).  In twenty years the cost of food stores has quadrupled.  Plus that went from higher to lower quality ( food grade to off gassing buckets, from more to far less naturally grown wheat ).  Don’t you wish you had stored five year’s worth back then?  Hell, I wish I had gone more Whole Hog on surplus rifles and ammunition, so I guess hindsight is a bitch.

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Most of this is due to population growth and Gore Warming.  We went from six to seven billion people ( about ten percent seemingly ending up here ) and at the same time our seventy year streak of freakishly mild weather came to an end.  The “Green Revolution” was primarily about turning oil into food, with a huge boost from better rice and wheat strains.  Yet without that mild weather, even those two things might not have been enough.  About the time the Club Of Rome report came out, we had just gotten lucky with all of those.

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The Limits Of Growth was never wrong.  Its projections are playing out now.  It just had the unfortunate timing that Malthus did.  If I tell you I’m going to die, when I’m a healthy twenty year old, and you call me a liar twenty years later, you are only technically correct.  I’ll still die, but you insisted on rushing the evidence.  The same with Peak Oil.  Very few people had the grounding in the science to start the discussion, but once that started it was simplicity itself to prove but impossible to time.  The hopium addicts used the timing failures to try to disprove the whole concept.

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Peak Oil is also peak population, because only coal and oil allow over five billion people to eat ( prior to coal, the New World did allow a surge in population, but that is largely illusionary.  We did a head count, headed over to the Caribbean with the smallpox bio-weapon, decimated 90% plus of the indigs, then started counting again.  We saw a spike in White population, but that was really only one group being killed and their food taken.  Pre-Columbus, the Americas were centralized agriculture empires ).

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So there you have three very compelling arguments to store lots of food.  Prices go up, a lot, as our wages fall.  The population is at least twelve times too large for what we can grow without oil.  And oil net energy is falling off a cliff.  If any of you don’t have a year’s supply of calories, I’m considering withdrawing your Bison Minion Club frequent flyer rewards.  Or at least black out a butt ton of dates to punish you.  But one year is SOOooo yesteryear.  That was way back when the gooberment actually could rebuild with the resources available.

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A year’s start is at least something.  But I’d strive for three years and five is far better ( you can save 20% by storing the wheat in an IBC tote rather than buckets, AND that is a food grade container-holding five year’s worth ).  But you know what?  I could care less about food inflation, overpopulation or running out of energy.  All are very good, compelling and proven reasons to prep ( unlike Gore Warming, which is still a mad collective Fever Dream like Political Correctness ), but I’m only covered for those incidentally.

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I built up to storing five years of food for another reason.  Yellowstone.  Do I actually tremble in fear over a supervolcano blowing?  No.  Am I convinced Wyoming will soon be a smoking crater?  Not at all.  I’d stipulate that we have a better chance of thermonuclear war each year.  But Yellowstone is to be feared as a worse case scenario.  It doesn’t have to happen, it just has to be used as a benchmark in your preparedness.  Why?  Not because of being buried under ash, breathing cement into your lungs or having your eyeballs scratched into uselessness ( have swim goggles with that mask ).

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Because of Perpetual Winter, where nothing grows.  Compared to blocked sunlight, Peak Oil ain’t dingus.  Hyperinflation is fun.  And overpopulation is barely an inconvenience.  Worse case is the sun doesn’t get through.  THAT is why I’m so paranoid about food stores.  Why I think quantity is far more important that quality ( ONE, repeat ONE, #10 can of meat is worth five months of wheat ).  Why I believe prepping for the short term is not prepping at all.  If an asteroid hits, or we have a nuclear exchange, or a supervolcano blows, we are all super deluxe double dog dingused. 

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Again, I’m not saying that we WILL see any of the above.  Certainly, a gender and race confused diversity hire in the Air Force could be insane enough to launch.  And granted, you never know when Mother Nature is feeling contrary from PMS that day.  I just think the odds are against them.  But $500 isn’t even an AR-15 for most of the gun snobs here.  Newsflash there chief.  You need both, but don’t tell me you cannot afford plenty of food, because even Ross Perot knows you can.

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Understandably, you simply cannot prepare for everything Worse Possible Scenario.  None of us have the resources for that.  If I could, I’d be happy to buy a very elevated island in a tropical location, and have missile batteries protecting it.  With concrete bunkers full of gold, HK91’s and bitches in bikinis.  But those Worst Case problems I CAN cheaply plan for?  Like the First Fundamental, Food.  Yes, it is silly to NOT prep for the worst.  I had nightmare visions of years without plant growth, where everything died, thank you very humping much, overactive imagination!  And cheaply eliminated the worry.

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note: thanks to minion goodness, I have the William W. Forstchen new book "48 Hours".  Overall a decent read, a main problem being the last part drug a bit.  I loved the premise.  Just note it is NOT a PA.  It is FAR better than his last two because of it, but that might make it less desirable for minions.  I'd call it a must read from the library and a Be Cautious if wanting to buy.  
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note: a minion pointed out another supplier of wool blankets click here.  The good price enticed him.  You'll have to read through the comments for any spec's, which I don't have.
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note: much better price than Amazon.  Minion reported E-Bay CD on the first issues of American Survival Guide click here
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