Posted on 05/15/2009 11:23:10 AM PDT by appleseed
In the serene hills of rural upstate New York, Kathie Breault is hunkering down for doomsday. It's not an all-out Armageddon that the 51-year-old grandmother is convinced of, but an imminent economic apocalypse.
A few years ago, Breault began reading about what happens when the world surpasses "peak oil" -- a point where we will use more oil than we can produce.
"I was afraid that any day that oil would disappear, that gas would start to disappear, that I wouldn't be able to get to work, I wouldn't have money, I wouldn't have food that I needed," she said. "It was frightening -- the picture that was painted."
Breault and a growing number of so-called "economic survivalists," are convinced that when oil supply wanes, the world will head for calamity; governments and the global economy will dissolve into chaos and collapse, the group believes, changing life as we know it.
"Everything that we do in our lives is dependent on abundant, cheap energy -- all the clothes we wear, the food we eat, the transportation. We've lost everything that we know about how to live in a different way," she said. "I'm totally dependent on a system that I think isn't going to be there in the future."
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The National Gardening Association says 7 million households will plant vegetable gardens this year, up 19 percent from last year.
Breault gets most of her food from Cedar Hill Farm, a local farm in Bennington, Vt., tended to by Lisa MacDougall and Chuck Currie.
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Since ABC News sat down for an interview with Breault earlier this month, she was laid off. That means she'll have to cut back even more -- eliminating some of the few frills, like juice, she still indulges in.
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Agree: the peak oil angle is stooopid liberal pipe dream to make us end our “obsession” with fossil fuels.
BUT...
You’d better believe I’m prepping for the day this economic house of cards Obama is building comes crashing down.
I’m in a much better place. Much better place. Keep saying that over and over.
“A few years ago, Breault began reading about what happens when the world surpasses “peak oil” “
Just wait till “Red Tide” hits!!!
We’ll all be goners!!!!!
While I disagree with the reasons she cites I do agree that It is prudent to prepare. And I'm not so sure I'd be willing to give an interview about my preparations with my full name and location included. It isn't good to let eveyone (potential future zombies...lol) know that you've got lots of food in your pantry.
“The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.”
(Seikh Zaki Yamani, former Saudi oil minister)
Ps. 18:34-35
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