Posted on 06/19/2014 9:00:52 AM PDT by xzins
You don't have to be an expert to notice that costs for many essentials are at all-time high. From gas to food, Americans can expect to pay even more in coming months.
The current national average for a gallon of gasoline is $3.67 -- that's higher than it's been since 2008.
The higher prices are being blamed, in part, on the instability in Iraq.
According to AAA, both gas prices and global oil prices have steadily risen since ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) took control of Mosul last week. The brutal jihadist army is actually flying its flag over Iraq's largest oil refinery.
High demand and the cost of drilling also play a role in the high price consumers are seeing at the pump.
"It's a lot more expensive to drill for oil today so we need higher prices," oil and gas broker Tom McCarty said.
"Again, if you look at the history going back for the last four years anyway, you know oil prices have been pretty stable," he noted. "Now they tend to swing to the 105 range back down to the 93 range."
"And one of these days it's going to break out above that and I'm afraid we may be close to that happening just simply because of more demand," he warned.
The cost of food is also sky-rocketing.
The price index for meats, poultry, fish and eggs hit an all-time high in May, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Meat costs are rising the fastest. A seven-year decline in herds has left the fewest cattle in at least six decades.
Analysts warn the high prices for both food and gas are here to stay for a while.
To make matters worse, Senate lawmakers actually proposed legislation this week to raise the federal gas and diesel taxes by 12 cents per-gallon over the next two years.
The proposal was pitched as a way to pay for highway and transit programs.
Well, the people that brought South America to fruition all live here now so WHY should we expect any other outcome?
Eleven hundred calories a day is totally unrealistic, sorry.
Don’t ever try to live on that for very long if you weigh more than fifty pounds unless you just lie in bed and don’t even read because reading burns calories. An old time logger who stood five seven and weighed about 155 would go through the whole week’s worth in one day and just belch and wipe his beard and never gain an ounce.
“At some point we will WANT to collapse the system in order to de-toxify the system.....”
I reached that point several years ago.
I think all white males should quit supporting a government that discriminates against them. This country won’t last long without the tax dollars from white males.
Lots of tips on food and storing other items on Kart’s ping list....
The cheapest way to store food is to get beans, rice, wheat berries, etch stored in Mylar in super pails. It will last decades. The foods to go with those come in #10 cans.
I think of the prepared meals you just add water to as junk food/fast food survival-style. Full of chemicals, most likely. Some is good to ward off appetite fatigue but I wouldn’t want to have only that on hand.
Costco is almost $4.00 a Gallon for Regular in South Orange County, CA.
$3.69 a Gallon would be relief.
It’s all going to plan. Wait until ISIS occupies Baghdad.
Preppers’ PING!!
Hat tip to yorkiemom for the heads up!
I like you
I have a few prepared stuff in #10 cans, but mostly I store the ‘makings’. I dehydrate a lot of my own vegetables and vacuum store them in canning jars.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3116028/posts
In “Stranger in a Strange Land”, the character Jubal said that he’s glad many people think cannibalism is unnatural or dangerous, or else he’d be really worried about a few of his neighbors given the price of meat.
The starting “3” is coming back.
The problem is that there will be another digit between the “3” and the decimal point.
Emergency Essentials is another good source of survival food and other preps.
1100 is a starvation diet. It wont support an active adult let alone one doing heavy physical labor. 2000 calories a day minimum and up to 4000 if you’re doing physical labor like farming or cutting wood.
Kart’s right. The cheapest way to store food is to do it yourself.
I have beans and wheat berries stored in Mylar both bought and packed myself. It was significantly cheaper to do it myself.
If/when I get a green thumb, I’ll add veggies to my stockpile. For now, I buy it dehydrated and store in mason jars with an oxygen absorber. Super easy to do. When I move to a humid area, i’m gonna invest in a vacuum sealer for storing just about everything.
How do you dehydrate? I didn’t read the whole thread.
I may need to invest in one of those, if I lose my brown thumb.
My employer ‘gifts’ us a grocery store Gift Card at Thanksgiving, supposedly to buy a Turkey for the family, and then one at Christmas for a Ham.
And while I LOVE both Turkey and Ham, I spend mine on rice, dry beans, peanut butter, medical supplies, etc.
Life. Is. Good. :)
Preserving Food: Dehydrating Fruits and Vegetables
http://nchfp.uga.edu/publications/uga/uga_dry_fruit.pdf
I use my dehydrator and then vacuum seal the dehydrated food in canning jars. I throw in a 100cc oxygen absorber so when I am done there is virtually no oxygen left in the jars.
VIDEO: How to store dry foods in canning jars
http://thesurvivalmom.com/video-how-to-store-dry-foods-in-canning-jars/
I often buy frozen vegetables when they are on sale. They are cut and washed and ready to go straight into the dehydrator.
I just made a purchase of green beans, and I’ll purchase another batch shortly. I roast my own coffee as a hobby. If a person doesn’t consider their time, it is cheaper in the long run. For most, it’s too easy simply to pick their coffee up at the grocery story. I’d do the same if I didn’t enjoy the roasting, the fresh aroma, and the taste.
My wife quilts as a hobby. Everything above applies. It’s very easy to walk into Wal-Mart and more easily and cheaply buy a Chinese made sort-of quilt.
A Romney presidency would have meant that my children would be fighting the war that we’re fighting now, since Romney is GOPe aka Democrat light. I’d rather fight for them, and I’d rather them be witnesses to what is happening instead of participants.
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