four storage plan book 6

FOUR STORAGE PLAN BOOK 6

Chapter Three

Inflation Plan

I'm really surprised that the grocery shelves are mostly restocked. Mostly. I understand every location is different. But in GENERAL, we are back to normal where very few things aren't getting back on the shelf. You might have to shop around a bit, go to three or four stores now rather than one or two, but that shouldn't be anything too abnormal. A decade ago after Wal-Mart ( I saw “Mao Mart” the other day-hilarious! That was a first. I wish I could credit that someone ) went Full Retard, you no longer had a One Stop Shopping Experience anymore.

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For fifteen years I pretty much only shopped at Wally ( except books, obviously ). Good times. But nothing good ever lasts and now one must take more care, return to YesterYear when you had to shop at all the stores in town to get the best bargains. So, it should come as no great shock that we need to carefully search for places that still have what we need in groceries. But what might shock you, but shouldn't, is that absent any government type of back door subsidy, food should start going up in price again. Yes, we had mild “shrink-flation”, but that was mostly junk food, or highly processed food ( like I said, junk food ).

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Normal price fluctuations are not what I'm talking about. If a frost comes and wipes out strawberries down in Mexico, well, so sorry, but the price is going to double. You can thank all the morons in California who ruined the state for agriculture. Gee, who would have thought a few million extra illegals drinking water and flushing toilets and washing lowriders would take water away from irrigation?

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There was a seed potato crop issue last year and this year we might see continuing shortages. But price increases are good, for demand destruction. I'm willing to see a fluctuation between a buck and three dollars, just so there is always a bag of potatoes ready to purchase. So we are used to prices rising in perishables. But real food price inflation, all food? That was twelve years ago after oil went to $140 a barrel. No one went hungry, but you sure were sweating a grocery store visit. That is what happens when Oil Age Food meets high oil prices. No worries, you say?

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Wrong. Before, shortages were not combated with higher prices ( outside the perishables ). Every underemployed lawyer with college debt and a hooker and blow addiction was salivating at the prospect of suing any price gougers. And they couldn't sue Mexican peasants. The grocery stores they could, so the stores just run out and stay out rather than raising prices. At this moment, oil prices are low. But they won't stay that way. We are in for another Oil Price Shock, soon. This is your warning that food price inflation will start again, on the wholesale and farm level.

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I'm going to veer into Peak Oil territory but I'll keep it very brief. I know you all hate the idea of your SUV not wasting gas and time. You cannot accept Peak Oil because even for a survivalist you are a weak and spoiled bastard. I still love you. Fracking Oil, the butt buddy who saved you the last Greater Depression, peaked last year. That was a production peak. You cannot just throw more exploration at it, as even at $70 a barrel, companies cut back on that cost as they are losing money.

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They aren't finding enough, so they stop trying. In the ground or not, hidden or not, the money isn't there, even AFTER banker subsidized loans, to find any more. Fracking was crap to begin with. And, well, it just got crappier. The fracking oil is no longer there to support an INCREASE in production. It is Peak Fracking Fuel. When the US peaked in conventional oil in 1971, we had an economic decline a few years later. When Global Peak happened in 2005, a few years later we had an economic decline. Last year, Peak Fake Oil, and this year, an economic decline ( if not collapse ). The food prices WILL increase, as they did the last two times.

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Note that this wasn't running out of oil. It was just an end of increasing supplies of oil. End Peak Oil lecture. Expect food inflation. So, you buy now. And it really doesn't matter if you'd prefer the prices were cheaper. They aren't, and they are only going up. So you buy now. A little bit of pain now or a lot later. You know, the whole premise behind prepping. This Inflation Plan is nothing more than a Budget Plan, but with ALL food, not just that which is on sale. Because it IS on sale, compared to a year from now.

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You can always get rid of the car. I've done it, even living off grid. Granted, some of you are much further away. But in most cases, push comes to shove, you most likely COULD if necessary stop driving. You could also move, if you were forced to ( don't have that junk land yet? What is wrong with you? ). You could live in a van down by the river. But the one thing that is hard to do is to stop eating. The inflation plan makes it easier to eat. After the apocalypse, you can burn down the neighbors house for ash to condition your soil. And you can raid the farmers field, or take over the National Forest to graze your sheep.

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But for now, as civilization endures, you shop at the grocery store like the other citizens. To do that, you need to stockpile while prices are cheaper. None of us is made of money. You spend less on food so that you can more easily afford the other items shooting up in price from inflation. Like heat to stay alive in winter. Or to buy more ammunition, to combat the roving gangs. Or just to buy MORE food, in case of future shortages.

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