Plenty of Americans understand that communism will alter availability from "scarce" to "nonexistent."
There's a high likelihood that if gas hits $10 per gallon our politicians will be on the receiving end of a Mussolini lamppost moment.
The price of food is linked by an iron chain to the price of oil: they don't rise at the same time, but let the price of oil go up and within a few weeks the chain will jerk taut. Modern American agriculture is utterly dependent upon cheap oil -- fertilizers, lubricants, fuel for farm equipment, power for the processing plants, fuel for reefers, the Diesel needed to run the trucks that bring the food to your grocer. No cheap oil = no cheap food.
Do you see now why I'm saying that gas is likely to be rationed? Should oil supplies become unavailable or unreliable (as they will when the balloon goes up in Iran), Uncle Sam will simply buy up all stocks of POL (petroleum and its distillates) and dole them out according to national security needs. The Pentagon gets first call; then the national transportation providers; then agriculture, industry, and power production. Any fuel left is probably going to be held in reserve in case the war spreads to our own shores (e.g. if the Muzis blow up one of the big refineries).
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>>Plenty of Americans understand that communism will alter availability from “scarce” to “nonexistent.”
Plenty of Americans were educated by Big Education in the last 20 years and they don’t know anything. They know what the talking head on TV tells them. If Katie Couric says that communism will fill their gas tank and fridge, too many of our fellow “citizens” will sell their birthright for a handout. Basically, take your typical Obama voter and multiply it by unemployment and hunger and you get a person that will vote for any promise.
Hopefully, the rest of us will use the lamposts to get rid of the problem.