$5 Gas Is About More Than Just Driving Habits

When it comes to the homestead, high gas prices hits us hard. If the farmers pay higher fuel costs, they are going to pass that cost on to consumers. We have to buy hay for our livestock. The farmers we buy from will raise the hay prices to cover their added fuel expenses. This in turn, has small livestock owners like ourselves, selling off breeding stock.

Yup. And why we’re all about being self sufficient.

I drive 100 miles a day on my round trip commute. With my 30 mpg vehicle and roughly 21 work days a month, that works out to 70 gallons of gas. At $3.00 a gallon, that’s $210 a month. At $4 it’s $280 a month. At $5 it’s $350 a month. That is actually very easy for us to absorb. I can telecommute one day a week, maybe. Work 4/10’s, etc.

But the impact on the price of everything else I buy can’t be ignored - and it is real. However, when we grow our own chickens and eggs, our own livestock and garden, and use wood from our own property to heat our home all of those things stay pretty much stable in price. Which is what we expect to happen this year.

“It’s all bad. Should there be shortages, it will be worse.”

And thus you stumble on the MAIN REASON for a person to be a Paranoid Prepper, like me. Most people will be able to handle higher prices - they simply will have to compromise in places (such as living with a 46” plasma rather than a 54” plasma, or watching the Astros on TV, rather than going to the games, etc.). But what will really bite will be when political pressure forces the Romney Administration to impose price controls. That then ASSURES shortages - in gas, food, clothes, everything. For gasoline, it is exceptionally bad, as it means multi-hour lines, when you can find an open gas station. We’ve seen this before, and we’ll likely see it again.

So, what to do? STOCK UP!!! Yes, Sam’s club has lots of stuff - until everyone expects shortages. Then they will have their shelves cleaned out in a matter of hours. But right now - with people in a drug-induced trance, the shelves are full. Take advantage of that. Anyone with the money and the storage room that does NOT have 4+ years of EVERY non-perishable stored up is playing with fire. Things will get ugly, very ugly, and it’s just a matter of how comfortable you will be when the music stops.

Energy costs are their way of quietly and efficiently finishing off the middle class. Or as Marx calls us, the petit bourgeois. He makes it very clear that as long as the petit bourgeois exists, we will defend the capitalists and the workers’ revolution will not happen.

By raising and lowering energy costs, they can manipuulate us to continue to work hard, make money, and then discover that there is nothing left after we meet our living expenses. Eventually, we are supposed to turn on our “bourgeois oppresors” and join the workers’ revolt. Oddly enough, in modern American communism, the so-called workers are actually non-workers.

But, after the “glorious revolution”, those non-workers will quickly become useless eaters. Their days of living off the fat of real workers is fast coming to a close and if you think that our lives are going to suck under Obamunism, know that theirs will be much worse.

Why point all this out? Because if we don’t make some drastic changes now, they will win without firing a shot. Changes in our lifestyles, changes in the way we do business, changes in government, and changes in our attitude that Leftists are just another political philosophy.

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