cargo bug out bike

CARGO BUG OUT BIKE

A propeller beanie hat tip to Survival Prepping For Normal People for blathering on incessantly, which means he throws out a ton of ideas every video and if the stars and planets align and my brain is functioning I get to steal said ideas, make them my own and take all the credit.  Today, NOT about using a bicycle to bug out as a transportation vehicle, but about using a bike as a trailer to haul all that gear that would normally break your back if you tried to carry it.  Now you can carry even the kitchen sink!

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Most affordable bikes can carry about 250 pounds of passenger.  If I eat like a cow and do no exercise, at my worst I might edge close to two hundred.  That easily gives me fifty pounds to carry, which is about all you want to carry in your baskets because by that point the whole thing is top heavy and a bit unstable.  And fifty pounds is about twice what you ever want to carry if you want to remain Light Infantry ( the US military has zero idea what the concept means, their definition of “light” being half your body weight rather than three quarters ).

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I’ve ridden my hobby horse of over-burdened RoboCop troops before.  No one listens, except a few that have tried to haul that weight around before.  If you want to move fast to flee trouble, or carry so little you cease to trample the landscape like a wounded water buffalo, you must define “necessary gear” a LOT differently.  At that point even a secondary weapon is too much ( keep in mind infantry carrying pistols is relatively recent ).  But, since no one listens, let’s redefine HOW you carry all that crap you think you need.

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I can whine and beg but you still think you need to emulate the military and carry 150 pounds of gear.  Fine.  Whatever.  But we CAN agree that you are an old out of shape pussy that cannot realistically carry what you think you need.  All the Militia Porn Stars on YouTube tell you to get in shape and Start Rucking It!  Well, hump that.  Sure, get in shape, by all means.  But if you are realistic with yourself, you understand that even the mightiest ninja warrior king eventually loses testosterone and hence ability.

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Nothing is sadder than an old warrior unable to admit he is getting too old.  Hey, we all love competition and proving ourselves.  Prove you are better than your own age group, not someone thirty years younger than you.  Act your age, you pathetic hump.  If you need mechanical assistance to haul gear, fine.  A motor vehicle is NOT realistic, but you still need to take the weight off your back.  A bicycle is just the ticket.  Hint:  get them NOW, before gasoline shortages and price hikes deplete the entire supply.  Extra Helpful Hint:  NOW, you lazy sorry simple bastard!

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What part of Now do you not understand?  Bikes used are going for $20 or $30.  Not a beach cruiser ( single speed adult bike ).  No one seems to like, own or want to get rid of theirs.  Everyone wants those Dog Awful one hundred and three gears of Mountain Bike.  Because you are all so cool and groovy, and you pedal up to the top of the world and beat on your man boobs in orgasmic sportsman’s glee, howling below at your inferiors.  Please, Afro-American!  Your pathetic ass can’t even bike to work on level asphalt. 

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If you are not riding a bicycle, but instead using it to haul cargo, it doesn’t matter if the brakes are shot, the seat is ripped, the derailer won’t work, the chain is rusted or almost any other issue.  The person cannot sell that bike to riders, except as a spare part bike, which mostly means it is worth scrape metal price for the frame and maybe the wheels.  Look in garage sales for those $10 types of bike.  That is a lot cheaper than a backpack.  Just make sure the spokes aren’t busted and the tires have some life left in them. 

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You COULD buy racks for the front and back ( here and here ) but you are spending $60 and then this goes from a King Bum project to a Gear Queer project.  Someone might steal the bike just for the racks.  And they don’t offer a huge amount of extra space.  You would do well to simply emulate the Victor Charlies and place sacks over the frame ( the testicle crusher running from seat post to handlebars ).  Simple and easy and cheap.  I’m not sure what bags to use, other than a duffle bag ( here ).

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When you look at pictures of those poor rice eating bastards pushing their bikes through streams, you’ll notice that they have a stick or pole where the seat used to be, extending the post three or four feet.  The handle bar on the chainless side also has a bar attached to it, sticking out horizontal away from the bike.  Since the huge bags stick out so far, they walked alongside, the right hand holding the seat stick and the left holding that handlebar extension.  Have you ever tried pushing your bike?

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If you aren’t careful, that damn foot pedal wants to chew up your ankle.  You have to keep the top of the bike leaning toward you to shove that out of the way.  You can’t do that with a heavy load on the bike.  Also, just pushing by one handlebar, the back of the bike weaves violently.  Once after retiring the truck, I had no choice but to ride one bike and pull the spare bike alongside into the bike shop.  It would have been quicker to walk it in and then walk myself home.  It was a bitch.  You WILL need the extension posts. 

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Continued tomorrow.

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wang election 2

WANG ELECTION 2

Okay, so I have to vote.  That sucks.  Being California will suck, worse.  A lot.  We get the taxes, the gun control, the Kill Whitey culture, but we don’t get the decent weather and the higher wages.  Which brings me to the whole reason I started the part one article but never got around to.  The Democrat Yang ( get the title?  Yang, Wang, same, same ) running on the Free Crap platform.  The Stupids, that Latino bartender from New York and that Muzzy bitch, they are ONLY offering free medical care.  Who cares!  Christ, offer them something better!

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If you offered college loan forgiveness, most of the population would vote for you. Alas, that would be money out of the bankers pockets, and even the world’s biggest dumb ass Democrat knows better than that.  JFK got the first warning, too late.  His brother SHOULD have known better, but, you know, he was a politician.  How smart are most of them?  He didn’t catch a clue from being warned off with Marilyn Monroe, or his brother.  He had to go.  Then JFK’s son got into the standard “accidental” plane crash.  So the message SHOULD have gotten through to the dimmest bulbs.

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You NEVER be late for the Don’s weekly pay-off, and you NEVER hump with the bankers money.  Free Stuff must come from inflation.  That is how the money is made ( more money supply is more loans is more payments to the bankers ).  Taking away loan payments is Verboten!  Nein!  But what is really nice is if you start giving everyone a Universal Basic Income.  That needs to come from more gov debt, and is used by all the unemployed to pay their debts like student loans.  Or car payments.  Or rent on banker owned apartments/homes. 

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Now, at first I was all excited about the Universal Basic Income ( BUI ).  I could triple/quadruple my take home pay, and ShaaaWing!, more prepping supplies.  After all, the government screwed us giving the economy to the bankers.  The least they could do was give us the tool to insure against some of the consequences of that.  I was all ready, Show Me Da Money!  Then it dawned on me.  This is how they are going to fund the illegals, now that the jobs are disappearing.  I mean, if it happens, okay, I’ll benefit.

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Perhaps.  Or perhaps, the deal will go something like this.  White Deplorables will be denied the benefit is they have ANY assets.  Paid for house, paid for junk land, paid for car.  AND, the condition of issuance will be they must consent to random inspections to assure no guns, no food stores ( counted as assets ) and etcetera.  Yet, illegals?  Nothing will count against them.  Their check will be guaranteed to be in the mail, just as they can get ID, welfare and Social Security and all the other goodies already.  Illegals can get a bank account, but not gun owners.

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Don’t be fooled into buying Yang’s book, where he articulately sells his not unreasonable vision.  No matter how pure his motives, true or not, in the end his fellow party members will pervert his vision to suit their needs.  And they needs them more voters, to Californicate the rest of the country.  I have ZERO problem with welfare, believe me.  And that is with me being an Anarchist.  To me, the rich screw the poor and the poor need a better safety net than just being able to work in unsafe conditions for low pay.

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However, given the current trends, I have a hard time believing the BUI will be better.  Odds are it will be worse.  If it replaces Social Security, if it replaces all welfare ( granted, I don’t have any details.  It is all just propaganda, so why waste my time with studying it? ), will it be inflation adjusted?  Will it come with stipulations like a Red Flag Law ( he voted Republican.  Automatic Crazy! )? Will you then have zero retirement?  But worse than that, the big one, will it incentivize far, far more illegals to stay, or come here? 

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I don’t care what details are attached.  The main concern is, what will our population skyrocket to?  Forget preserving Whiteness.  Your only chance is to flee to rural like-colored counties.  Which is a way to draw Deplorables into voting for this, as there are no jobs out there.  But “Out There” is a heck of a lot safer than being near a Sanctuary City.  This almost gets to be a Dilemma rather than a Problem ( because remember, problems can be solved but dilemmas can only be endured ).  If you vote for BUI, you screw yourself.  If you don’t, there is no escape.

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I have no illusions anyone is going to act in their groups best interests.  It is every man for themselves out there.  It is, truly, too late to vote ourselves out of this mess.  The only thing voting does, if that, is slightly delay Bad Things.  I’m under no illusions over that, either.  Voting might just be wasting my damn time and effort.  But if we are going to vote, we still have to decide what is best.  Even if only for ourselves.  Is the BUI a good idea?  Even if there are no White Deplorable bias built into it? 

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It is a choice for the lesser evil.  By the time this is passed, the economy WILL be that bad that it is needed.  If for nothing else than to keep the wheels on the economy just a little while longer.  To keep consumption up.  Most of you will already have lost your job ( IF this is passed to save the economy, it will NOT be biased against Deplorables.  If it IS biased, then it is simply to increase immigration and Californicate the nation ).  This might be your only option.

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If you think you are above accepting welfare, you might be in for a rude surprise.  You might have to, just as you crawl like a worm at your corporate job.  I mainly bring this up to give dimension to the now fringe idea of the BUI.  I don’t think any of us will be voting for it, but we might end up living with it, regardless.  Assuming, of course, that our system stays together long enough for this to be a concern.  We might be better off with an economic collapse.  Illegals won’t come here without a bribe.

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wang election

WANG ELECTION

Will this next election probably suck a bag of wangs?  Most likely.  And not just because we are going to have the complete bat crap crazy town experience of all these idiots preaching, begging, advertising and in general just bothering the crap out of us.  I mean, REALLY?  I’m sitting down stuffing my face and watching a real Clint Eastwood movie ( not that hideous befouled hunk of offal he just came out with ), and at 8:30 at night some jackass is calling with a phone survey for politics?  Shove it up your ass, you diseased anal whore!

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And that is just the start.  If I want to watch a channel besides Netflix, will I get stuck watching a political ad?  Already Amazon is putting their own advertising in front of their shows.  Sure, NOW it is only a preview of one of their own productions, but will those book burning butt sniffers start trying to sneak in Democrat ads?  After all, if Forrest Trump gets re-elected, the free world is in mortal danger!  The Beautiful People must charge in to rescue us ( the only thing I’m happy about with The Donald is that he isn’t Hilary ).

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No, it isn’t just the expected deluge of stupid I’m worried about, advertising the Kabuki Theatre of the bankers pretending your vote matters.  More than likely, in a year and a half the economy is going to be eating a bag of wangs and whichever idiot is elected is going to do really, horrendous terrible things in response.  I’m not saying it REALLY matters if it is a Democrat or a Republican, as long term big picture the same result will occur.  In the end, all of you AR owners with FLIR’s attached will be fighting with chunks of rebar.

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Long term, you will be wearing rat pelts ( because you didn’t deep stock thrift store clothes ) and fighting for foraging territory with chunks of metal you pulled during salvage ( because you didn’t invest $555 in ten thousand rounds of rimfire and a single shot .22 rifle ).  Short term, however, we have to worry about which banker approved candidate you should vote for, because their default panic modes will be different. I hate the whole concept of voting, as it is in effect voting for the current system.  Which is no choice at all.

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And yet, I wonder.  If I continue to NOT vote, am I voting for a faster decline?  By which I mean, do White Deplorables  get raped quicker?  Since I can’t believe the bankers micromanage this whole thing, merely not allowing anyone unapproved to run in the first place, could my vote matter at least on a state level?  If I don’t vote, will gun control happen quicker in Nevada?  It is almost like I have to suck it up and vote, even as it pains me intellectually, or I’ll be complicit in my own quicker demise.

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In the end, it is all the same sorry excuse of decline and collapse, me roaming the wasteland hoping to find a wheat field to pillage.  But if I make the common mistake of thinking things will collapse quickly, on my schedule,  I might get in trouble.  I really hate the thought of voting.  It is me giving my consent at sodomy and bondage.  But if I don’t vote, does that mean the Latino Wave Occupation gets into power four years earlier?  Four years could make all the difference, given my life expectancy.  And doesn’t survival mean you have to do what is necessary rather than what is desired?

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Hell, while I’m busy debasing myself by registering to vote, I might as well support the whole Legislator Lobbying Paradigm and re-start a membership in a pro-gun organization.  Not those thieving bastards in the NRA, busy redecorating their staterooms on the Titanic with all the membership money.  I’m glad I stopped short while making payments for a lifetime membership, twenty plus years ago.  I want nothing to do with those asswhores.  But Gun Owners Of America seems a worthy organization to support.  I don’t know if it will help.

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But like voting, it cannot hurt.  Deciding to vote again only hurts my ego, as I was so invested in avoiding the practice.  But it might help in all other ways.  My $20 a year to the GOA might only help other states get more gun rights as my state gets fewer.  But maybe not.  It might actually help me.  It is a cheap enough price to gamble on.  And, as Yankee Marshal points out, gun owners are still the largest voting block.  Far better to vote and rally now, than not have a gun to fight with later.

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Actually, he was far less kind.  He actually said if you are too lazy to vote and support a group now, there would be no way you’d actually fight physically later.  I know that made me feel like a turd.  He is the one getting me to join.  Even if you are screwed in your anti-gun state, you’ll still be helping out others.  And we are rather selfish and self-centered, in our race preparing, so it is a good step outside your safe zone.  And speaking of leaving your comfort zone, I’ll go ahead and declare all you active voters vindicated.  I was wrong.  Probably.

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Now, does it matter who we vote for?  In the macro sense, no.  The Banker’s Boy gets elected from both parties.  But in a short term manner, it does matter that at least you vote against the Democrat party.  Not because they are any worse than the Republicans.  Remember, the Republicans are just as committed to gun control and open borders, they just don’t admit it.  Who is voting for the Red Flag Laws?  Who banned the gun imports, before Clinton merely closed the Chinese loophole?  Who keeps passing Amnesties?  A Tweet of disapproval is NOT a vote.

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No, you just don’t want to vote Democrats because if you join the vote for all the illegals that shouldn’t be allowed to vote but are, you’ll get a California style One Party System.  Remember, both the Soviet Union AND Nazi Germany had only one party to vote for.  Like California.  Vote for anyone else except Democrats, just to thwart SOME of their nonsense.  Both parties will vote IN the bankers, but at least SOME effort must be made to keep guns legal and the Democrats won’t do that.  Obammy did, but he was a One Issue president, getting the UnAffordable Care Act passed to bail out the financial industry.

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no biscuit for car 3

NO BISCUIT FOR CAR 3

Much ado has been made of the Fracking Revolution, whereas if you wrap the flag around you real tight, tap your heels together three times, say “I THINK I can!”, then you will be granted Energy Independence.  Because that is how math works.  You use 20 million barrels of oil a day, produce six, but if your production doubles to 12, well, THAT is energy independence.  Not importing as much, the Fracking Fag Miracle.  America, where Bitches Power is real, Diversity Is Our Strength and LESS Oil Imports equals self-sufficiency.  Actually, we are close, just one economic implosion away.

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Prior to oil almost touching $150, we used 20 million barrels of oil a day.  Over the course of the Great Recession, we dipped to about 18 million.  I haven’t seen any up to date figures, but given ethanol use and the global production slow-down, I wonder if we are down to 15 or 16.  Just a bit more unemployment, homelessness and retail closings, hell, we might actually get down to only needing twelve million barrels of oil a day.  There you’d see actual energy independence.  Of course, the economy would have to be so flattened, one wonders how oil would be delivered through the riots.

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Just as natural death from old age will save you from needing to commit suicide, energy independence will occur after we would need the oil, since there is no more economic activity needing energy.  Now, call me pessimistic, but as the entire economy swirls down the toilet, wouldn’t that make it a little harder to get gasoline?  I know that you think cheap gasoline is an American birthright.  That is the only reason you reject socialism, since you see the taxes Europeans put on gas.  Drive Long Or Die!

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Okay, forget about imported oil.  Forget about Petrodollar Death, as at least there is a chance that danger may ( repeat, MAY ) have already been countered by TPTB.  Perhaps gasoline always will be available, at least the raw commodity price, if not at cheap prices then at somehow affordable prices.  You might actually see a long slow collapse of the Happy Motoring paradigm.  But, like everything else, the government can still screw all that up for you once they force their ham fisted “solutions” onto you.  First up, ALWAYS, much higher taxes.  You can take that to the bank.

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Just as the government does not care in the slightest that you cannot afford their property taxes, they could give two wet farts if they charge too much on gasoline.  They need it, so you get to pay it.  As we discovered with cigarette taxes, our Land Of The Free taxes were HIGHER than the Evil Socialist next door ( when they were smuggling cigarettes down into New York ).  The Politically Correct Forces Of Good decided that henceforth and ever more, cigarettes were bad ( as are large sodas, since all coast dwelling Yuppies can afford bottled water from Fiji ).

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The government saw dollar signs.  It raised taxes.  A lot.  Less people smoked, so tax revenues dropped, which meant the taxes had to be raised, again.  Now, given the Agitators dislike for poor people causing harm to the environment ( it is encouraged that rich people keep polluting, or at least consuming rare commodities like specialized honey ), can you see the next Big Issue Of The Day being gasoline consumption being demonized?  You know, to Save Da Planet, Yo!  The Beautiful People have their Prius or Volts ( I would say “Tesla’s”, but I think they are all catching fire and dying ).

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But Deplorables have big redneck trucks, or old beat up gas guzzlers because that is all they can afford.  The Right Thinkers can pay more per gallon, so Soccer Moms, college professors and Black Welfare Protesters ( there will obviously be subsidized gasoline for Dem Opresseded Peoplez ) can save the environment but not be inconvenienced while doing so.  The working poor get pounded in the ass by Gaia and Al Gore.  But they can always get strip searched or mugged while taking public transportation, so no sympathy there.

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Greenies have always been pulled primarily from the ranks of the Marxists.  Protestors against nuclear power were correct in their fears, but the whole strategy was to ONLY disarm the US.  Cutting their teeth on turning their own government into the feminized victim, gun control was the next logical step.  As was Political Correctness.  Since meddling like a village matchmaker is their hobby, they cannot stop themselves from trying to save the world in their image of a biology-free zone.  There is always another cause to rally to.  Today, hot and bothered over the environment, your freedom of movement is the next target.

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The Clueless Do-Gooders move in chanting and screaming naked at the sky, imploring Earth Mother to save them from White Racist Males, and the government jumps in and raises taxes.  A lot.  Then gasoline tax revenues fall, so they must raise them again.  Then, toll roads.  Then, drone surveillance to enforce the tolls, followed by random road blocks to check for Emissions Test stickers and functioning Toll Payment GPS devices.  Hollywood will start featuring cars that are battery powered or more efficient, driven only by Blacks or mixed race couples or Butt Pirates.

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What I’m trying to convey here is that if we don’t get sudden gasoline shortages and price hikes, we’ll get government intervention to reduce use, as seen with the Green camouflage tax on diesel under Obammy when he changed emission standards.  Either way, even prior to Total Collapse, your ‘Murican right to drive will be compromised.  He who recognizes and changes his lifestyle in anticipation will be better served than one who totally ignores the danger, because “everyone NEEDS to drive nowadays”, and just blindly stays with Business As Usual.  You can pretend we will never run out of oil.  Or you can plan for it.

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no biscuit for car 2

NO BISCUIT FOR CAR 2

Owning a car is normal right now.  If you don’t own a car you are looked upon with suspicion ( IF you are the older generation.  The newer one, not owning a car has become more normal as everyone has given up shelter and transportation for college.  Dumbasses ).  But having a car was only normal since the end of World War II ( just as college for the masses was only normal since then-but beating out car ownership for obsolescence real fast ).  It is about to get Not Normal.  Already headed there, in fact.

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I have started investigating alternate TV streaming services.  Netflix is so broke, as soon as the stock market takes a big squishy I wonder if the company will survive.  Sony Crackle and Tobi are two pretty good ones that give you free shows with very minimal commercials.  Another great one is Vudu.  The point being, I’m starting to catch some advertising that I had avoided the last few years.  Cars are being offered at lease prices about like I seem to recall ten years ago.  But auto’s are up 50%.  Companies are leasing below price.  How long can that last?

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If you are wondering, your tax dollars bailing out Detroit did exactly Hump All.  A few executives probably got some extra hookers and blow, for which they thank you.  But overall the industry seems to be at least three or four times worse than a decade ago.  As the industry shrinks along with demand, you are going to find your options shrinking with it.  Prices will continue to rise and quality shrink.  For the simple reason that like most industries, auto’s borrowed a butt ton of money the last Great Recession and they can’t pay it back with LESS sales.

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All those little colleges cutting back, merging or closing?  Decreasing demand ( from their own greed sodomizing their monopoly ).  Retail is the same.  Housing is the same.  Auto’s are the same.  Taking decreasing quality into account, you are probably paying three times for a car than prior to the last economic contraction.  But unemployment is soaring along with bankruptcies ( as if the true rate of 30% wasn’t high enough to begin with ).  The true cost of owning an auto will go up with the squeeze on purchasing power. 

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One of the reasons used cars are going for so much money is that the older ones lasted much longer.  You are paying only $5k less than a new one, the older model having 40k miles on it, because new cars are seeing transmissions fail much quicker, as well as other failures.  Some cars are barely squeezing out 100k miles.  If the old ones lasted 150k before the transmission went, you are getting a car capable of twice the life before any major repair is necessary.  Your cost per mile is on track to go up, exponentially.  All I’m saying is, the paradigm is ending.

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Clearly, car ownership is headed towards that of a college degree.  Only the well off can afford them.  No longer will it be an item for the masses.  Eventually, you might have to say good-bye to your car.  And yes, I get it.  You are old, you have several cars that are not, and you’ll die before Mass Motoring does, if the fuel supply lasts.  I’m just identifying the trend.  How much it affects you is an open question.  As hours and pay decline, and auto costs increase, the trend is less car ownership.  Just as the trend is gas prices spiking.

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I do NOT bring this up because of the current gas prices.  These are nothing compared to the 1970’s.  You car pukes are so spoiled, a twenty percent increase in gas shoves your waded panties clear up to your colon.  California gas is already $4 in some markets, so you know they will be on their way to $5 easy.  Whatever you were paying in 2008/9, get ready for that again.  Just saying, as a public service announcement.  Long term, you’ll look back fondly on these prices.  I can guarantee you a jelly filled donut.

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Long-er term, no gas.  Obviously.  But then we get into the whole “when do you transition to a post-oil lifestyle, and what modern practice do you still treat yourself with” question.  I completely gave up on the auto six or so years ago, and that was even then a luxury.  Now, I won’t even accept that use.  I’m over cars, they are far too much money, worry and stress.  But let us say that you are a stubborn bastard and hold out to the end.  What do you have to look forward to?  As I said yesterday, cars will be weaponized against you.

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They always have been, but it was just the ocean to your fish.  It was so normal you didn’t notice.  I’m not even talking about the corralling of the workers into cities.  That predates the auto by a few centuries.  But what about the amount of control that auto started having over you, beginning no later than the early 70’s with OPEC?  Your life started revolving around the car and the price of its fuel.  It started controlling your household budget.  Really, it became the equivalent of another mortgage payment.  But that is just economic control.

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That was paying the mafia don his cut.  Soon, as a strategic necessity, long distance travel is going to be controlled.  All fine and dandy, as you don’t go on vacations anymore, but what about getting to your junk land or BOL.  Will you be allowed to move?  Or will it require a Gasoline Rationing Board’s approval?  Will food be controlled, as another type of fuel rationing?  Will owning a car, if you live X miles within a distribution center, be considered a luxury?  Will you be penalized if you continue to own it?

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I’ll wager, given the above, in that circumstance your car will be worth close to zero, and Dog Forbid you still owe money on it.  Sure, you’ll be given a free monthly bus pass, but public transportation will be full of dangers from criminals, both private and public ( like drunk driving roadblocks today, random shake-downs ).  You do NOT want to be reliant on public transportation.  Nor do you want your private auto to suddenly be a worthless investment.  Are you sure you don’t want to opt out NOW, while you still have control?  Think this is all far fetched?

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How else do we cope with a diminishing fuel supply?  Continued tomorrow.

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no biscuit for car

NO BISCUIT FOR CAR

For as long as you’ve known me, I am like a parrot with hemorrhoids, repeatedly squawking about getting rid of your car.  I’ve tried it from the Peak Oil angle, telling you that if we rely on imports for 70% of our oil ( less now, with fracking, only about 40%-but I trust you understand that will not last all that much longer ), a car is a huge vulnerability.  I’ve tried it from the Frugal Living angle, telling you that if you get rid of the car and rent, you can live on almost nothing.

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I tried coming at it from a prepping perspective, explaining that you could put all your savings into extra preps.  None of this matters to any of you, because you all make far more money than I do, and your clunker you fix yourself uses so little gas and requires so little insurance that the expense registers not at all.  So, not one to ever give up the fight, I’m going to try yet again, and try in vain yet another argument.  You will need practice, and your car dependency during a guerrilla war.  I don’t know if I’ll make a difference, but I must try.

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Getting by without a car is a skill, like anything else.  And all skills need to be practiced.  I didn’t start out immune from the Siren call of a car.  Like all teenagers, I lusted after a car because I thought it would get me laid ( it would have been cheaper to get weed, but what did I know at that age?  Hell, I thought the military was an escape rather than just another prison ).  But a car was more of a fantasy.  We lived out in the country, and it still wasn’t a requirement.

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Living out of town, on acreage, I had a lot of chores.  Not just inside, because my sister had too refined of sensibilities to do any more than a token amount of housework, but outside.  Good gravy, were there plenty of outside chores.  We boarded horses, so there was fence repair ( after installation.  It was an old abandoned quarry, and that dirt was HARD ), and horse crap.  There was the chicken coop, two orchards ( watering and mowing ), lawns and a garden.  I appreciate all that now, but not then.

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I had school, then homework, then chores and if the gods smiled at me, I could get some reading in there in my spare time.  TV was only an hour a night, so that wasn’t the time waster it is now.  Usually, as I had an entire world to read about, I half-assed school work and chores to free up more time.  But the LAST thing I had time for was working a job in town.  I had plenty of opportunities, and tried my hand here and there.  But I just didn’t have the time and especially not the inclination.

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Plus, I mainly tried to do all my chores on the weekdays so I could hang out with my buddies on the weekend.  I certainly didn’t want to do all that work, just so I could work in town those two days.  As a result, very early in life I decided that money just wasn’t all that important to me.  I had to work, that was a given.  How MUCH I had to work was under my control.  I also decided that since money wasn’t important, I got to enjoy the bonus of, more often than not, picking what kind of job.

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Choosing to forego a regular paycheck, I had to get into town the old fashion way.  I have no earthly idea how far away we lived, but it probably was twenty minutes of very fast pedaling.  Call it five to seven miles.  I was just past the city limits but the town sprawled out.  I still lusted after a car, and the last year and a half I had a motorcycle ( traded for the pick-up I was given in the divorce.  Stepdad wanted it after I left the nest ), but I certainly learned how to live without a motor vehicle.

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The military and its low pay taught me how insane relying on a taxi was, and I was in great shape so I walked, again, a lot.  Not the smartest idea sometimes, as I was almost jumped once and another time stuck in high crime downtown after bar closing time.  I still kept walking, although I got smarter about it.  There was the bus, but it had limited hours and routes.  At one time, the Air Force ( where we had housing ) decided to close the gate at the rear of the base after hours.

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The Army base was right down the road from there.  So, it was way too far to go to the front gate and loop around.  When we had to work the day shift, transportation became a problem because we needed to go in so early.  I got a moped for a time but the thing broke early and I returned it to the Rent-To-Own.  I did get a ride once in awhile, but that wasn’t always practical.  My solution?  Wearing an old T-shirt, I squeezed myself under the bottom of the closed gate, redressed and walked the short distance.

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Ah, military security during the Cold War.  I didn’t really ever return to a bike until later in life.  I walked a lot.  Hours at a time, no problem.  For the most trivial of reasons.  Once, I was living in Wyoming for the summer ( no way I was living there through the coming winter! ) and only working a waiter job ( WAY below minimum wage, and total crap tips ) for fifteen or twenty hours a week.  I wanted to treat myself, so I decided to go to the movies and watch the new James Bond.

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This was Cheyenne, and between me and the theatre was another Air Force base.  I must have walked two hours each way.  For a movie I can’t even remember.  In cowboy boots.  And I didn’t even care, much, about the walk.  It was just how I survived on low wages.  Because I simply didn’t care about money. That would come several years later when Future Baby Momma got here hooks into me.  Against my will.  I don’t think I even minded paying her all my money as much as I minded working jobs I hated, FOR that money. 

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Living without a car is easy.  It does take practice for the work-arounds and learning how to minimize your distances.  Mostly, it is having the proper mindset to get rid of the car.  Mine was easy and early.  But you certainly cannot go from pampered transportation to walking or biking, overnight.  There is a learning curve.  Not because it is hard but because you must learn how to make it easier.  Walking smarter rather than harder, as it were.  And I wouldn’t recommend walking.  Not with how today’s shoes are made. 

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It is cheaper to keep a bike running than it is replacing shoes.  But, all that and more tomorrow.

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