Oil: The Liars are Leading the Blind to Oblivion/Enjoy the Now

Let me make a prediction you will see in your lifetime. Perhaps next year.

This prediction is based on THIS story and the following stories:

At some point, a dwindling number of gas stations will be protected by guards armed with submachine pistols. All cars will have to stop at a distance from the station to be searched for weapons. You will pay for whatever gas you want through electronic debit or cash at the checkpoint. Then you will proceed to the pump and pump your own fuel under the watchful eye of guards.

and/or

You will have a gas ration card and sticker on your car not unlike the World War Two “A” cards. Guards at gas stations will carefully log the number of gallons you buy and cross check your card against their database.

Since most Americans read nothing outside of their own controlled media, here’s a well written run down of just what we face that our glorious President, Congress and media haven’t told us about.

London Independent

I won’t except it here - just read it. You NEED to READ this.

And remember, all the bad stuff accelerates at incredible speed if the Warmonger in Chief attacks Iran as many predict will happen by the end of the year or next January. Or some other kind of terrorist attack is launched during the transition.

Now, I have run out of any hope for the future of the world. Notice that most of the Western nations we spit on publicly as effeminate cheese-eating surrender monkeys are doing their best to encourage and require (by law) conservation and conversion measures.

Not so in our land of the “non-negotiable lifestyle.”

And for that, we are well and truly fucked and deservedly so.

And we can spend the time on the downward spiral not leading, but blaming the Chinese and the Indians for being the REAL CAUSE of the end of industrial society. That might make the Rush Limbaughs and Lou Dobbs feel better for a few months but the bottom line is, in the end, we will be left psychologically unprepared and economically undefended against what will hit us.

At that point, I guess the entire Bush Crime Family takes off for their ranch in Paraguay. The rest of us will be contending with a society tearing itself to pieces. There will be blood, oh yes, there will be blood.

Look, nothing is going to happen on the political front. Even the sainted Obama isn’t talking about any of this because he knows that to tell the American people the truth would doom his chances of winning. And the corporate boys are content to ride the economic collapse wave all the way down where they will either flee to their private islands or their armed compounds (like the Walton family has built).

The liars are leading the blind to oblivion.

So my advice to all of you is simply this: go out and blow the ranch on having a good time. Want to take a great dream vacation in your life? Take it now. Right now. Just drop everything, max up the cards and go. Seriously. We’re all going to be poor and scraping by to some degree in the future anyway so you might as well enjoy yourself now. The memories of this last great time may be all you have to keep you warm someday.

Read the article again: the writing is on the wall and there will be not be any movieland deus ex machina to stop it.

OK, if it helps, pretend some doctor told you you have inoperable cancer and have a year to live. The self-help gurus always told you you should live your life like that. Well, now you can! And with good reason.

If you feel like living beyond Armageddon, go ahead and get the basement filled with non-perishables. Buy some gas cans and, right NOW, store a few tankfuls of gas in the garage. Yes, get all the nifty guns and ammo you want now. Charge them - no one a few years ago is going to pay those balances anyway. And no one will be able to collect on them either.

Where we’re going as a nation a sterling credit record is not going to matter. Neither will all that ugly looking fiat currency you’re stuffing in your wallet or purse.

You might, just might, want to look at all the stuff you’re selling on Ebay and think about what you might get for locally in barter. Just saying.

Want it? Want it bad? Get it now. Enjoy it now, especially if no one will buy it from you later. Hell, it may even give the US economy one more dead cat bounce and make the boys on Wall Street happy enough until the end of the year.

Everything is simply going to get more expensive in the near and long term future, starting now. And in the case of things like gasoline and heating oil, they may go out of sight instantly, in the event of an attack against Iran.

And, by the way, do you think your employer is going to raise your pay to cover the sharp rising costs of living?

(rolling on the floor laughing)

As as the Independent article points out - most of your durable goods, food and medicines owe their existence to oil. As oil soars, so do all of them.

(As an aside, with so many millions of Americans brain chemistry now totally dependent on SSRI type anti-depressants, what happens when the shit hits the fan and they can’t get their drugs anymore? There won’t be nearly enough police to contain the carnage.)

Survivalism

Now that brings up another issue covered last Saturday by the Associated Press: Survivalism.

Yes, I’ve mentioned food, weapons and all of that. And the people the AP interviewed are serious about what they’re doing and preparing for.

But consider what they believe is going to happen:

“There’s going to be things that happen when people can’t get things that they need for themselves and their families,” said Lynn-Marie, who believes cities could see a rise in violence as early as 2012.

Lynn-Marie asked to be identified by her first name to protect her homestead in rural western Idaho. Many of these survivalists declined to speak to The Associated Press for similar reasons.

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Determined to guard themselves from potentially harsh times ahead, Lynn-Marie and her husband have already planted an orchard of about 40 trees and built a greenhouse on their 7 1/2 acres. They have built their own irrigation system. They’ve begun to raise chickens and pigs, and they’ve learned to slaughter them.

The couple have gotten rid of their TV and instead have been reading dusty old books published in their grandparents’ era, books that explain the simpler lifestyle they are trying to revive. Lynn-Marie has been teaching herself how to make soap. Her husband, concerned about one day being unable to get medications, has been training to become an herbalist.

By 2012, they expect to power their property with solar panels, and produce their own meat, milk and vegetables. When things start to fall apart, they expect their children and grandchildren will come back home and help them work the land. She envisions a day when the family may have to decide whether to turn needy people away from their door. (with what, a few kind words or an AK-47? - ed.)

“People will be unprepared,” she said. “And we can imagine marauding hordes.”

So can Peter Laskowski. Living in a woodsy area outside of Montpelier, Vt., the 57-year-old retiree has become the local constable and a deputy sheriff for his county, as well as an emergency medical technician.

“I decided there was nothing like getting the training myself to deal with insurrections, if that’s a possibility,” said the former executive recruiter.

Which brings up the next question: not so much how many American could conceivably live like that but how many would want to? Slaughtering chickens and pigs? Yechhh!!! Tending a garden by hand? No HBO? Why live?

They had a solution for this in Soylent Green.

So look, you’ve got maybe 6-8 months in the event of an attack on Iran to live it up. Without an attack, 2-3 years tops before other things happen I don’t have the time or patience to talk about here.

Now get out there and enjoy life!