Up until about 30 or 40 years ago what the local stores didn't stock was in your grandparents pantry, root cellar or in their garden. How many people have the same today?
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Having been a commercial driver, I know exactly what you’re saying.
It would be so easy to bring this nation to its knees, by shutting down the distribution network. Problem is, the trucking unions will continue to do their “Socialist Duty For The Nation” and keep driving.
/johnny
Pardon me for seeming dense, but why would the trucks just stop rolling? I can think of two reasons: EMP and nuclear war. Of course, there’s also plague and a zombie apocalypse, but you get my drift. Basically, the trucks are just a symptom of a larger catastrophe. I don’t think an economic recession or even a severe depression would bring American commerce to a standstill.
When the trucks stop it will take a mere 3 days on average for most store shelves to go empty and then no more than 30 days for all warehouses to be empty, and most likely no more than 7 days. During those 3 to 30 days most items will go out of stock too quickly to count on getting any. During that time unrest will happen. Panic will set in. No amount of face time on TV by government officials can possibly quell the unrest. Why the trucks stopped will determine what happens next. If there is a financial collapse then all Hell breaks loose.
That’s why we need to get back to rail. It’s exponentially cheaper.
It’s all pretty scary. The ripple effects would be severe, the specifics of which are far too many to list here. You may be of the opinion that something like this could or would never happen. You would be wrong to think so.
I grew up around the huge family gardens and cleaning and canning at the kitchen table, but I didn't pay much attention to the hows and the whys of what was being done.
And I'm still kicking myself for taking so much for granted!
Fortunately, we are rediscovering our somewhat forgotten heritage before it's too late...I hope it's not too late.
I’m convinced. I’m going to go buy 20,000 rounds of 22 ammo and move to a cave in the mountains. My life will SUCK, but I’ll be ready when life as we know it ends....
The article suggests it will take 2-3 days for gas stations to run dry.
That strikes me as overly optimistic.
The city of Phoenix gets nearly all its gasoline via a pipeline connected in Tucson to another pipeline from El Paso.
About 10 years ago, that pipeline from Tucson sprang a leak and was inop for a couple of weeks while being repaired, and all gasoline/diesel fuel had to be trucked from Tucson.
It didn’t take 2-3 days; gas stations started running dry in hours.
Stations that had gas had long lines, just like in the ‘70s.
There were three stations on the corner nearest to where I lived. One of them generally had gas, but usually by the time one of the “empties” got restocked, the one that had gas was either “out” or darned-near out.
About the same senarios exist should the ships or rails become idle..... Trucks are one link in the delivery system for most goods.
And still, about 3 million Americans starved to death during the Great Depression—during a time when half or more Americans lived on farms.
Here’s the deal, the entire trucking industry doesn’t need to shut down for the economy to stop. Only the fuel haulers need to shut down. The truckstops and c-stores would all run out of fuel in 2 days maximum. Without fuel, the rest of the trucks stop within a day. Where do the fuel haulers get fuel? The refineries. So, really to shut the economy down all that would be needed would be to lock down the relatively few refineries.
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If North America utilizes all of it's hydrocarbon resources we would have no need for war, except to protect what is ours.
I don’t how many people are self sufficient today, but there are plenty of them in the county where I live, small farmers who raise their live stock, chickens,pigs, goats and all their own vegetables. They bake their own bread and can or freeze all their own vegetables. (not us, but lots of other people)
The Democrats who control the state hate them and are doing everything in their power to prevent them from living the lifestyle that they have always lived.
Up until about 30 or 40 years ago what the local stores didn’t stock was in your grandparents pantry, root cellar or in their garden. How many people have the same today?
Perhaps 60 or 80 years ago...
Once hyper-inflation takes hold and diesel fuel becomes too costly, the trucks will stop.
The real problem is that Government is licking its collective chops at the prospect.