People these days may have the attention span of a flea but they have the memory of elephants when they get fucked over.

I know I do.

Highest Gasoline Prices in History Hit All 50 States, National Avg Increased 20 Cents in Just Four Days

March 10, 2022 | Sundance | 

The nationwide average for regular gas is now $4.32 a gallon, according to AAA. Just yesterday it was $4.25. In just a few days gasoline has eclipsed the highest price ever recorded by 20¢.  The previous record was $4.11 in July 2008.  Unfortunately, there is no end in sight.  Anecdotally, my neighborhood gas station went up 75¢/gal in just three days and is now $4.95.

Nationally, Diesel prices are also at record highs, with the average cost at $5.06 a gallon, up almost twenty cents overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, this will increase transportation costs for all goods being delivered.   The speed of the current rate of increase is very troublesome.

We all know it’s only going to get worse and we all know it is deliberate.

I seem to recall something about an election coming around a bit later.

Nobody is going to forget this shit.

I absolutely guarantee that.

When the Commie Bastards try cheating the election again, because you know damn good and well they are going to, I think there is going to be enough hell raised the very next day that these complete assclowns are all going to be looking for rocks to crawl under.

The ones that don’t get shit canned right out of the gate anyway.

There is no way possible that they are going to retain their majority either way at this point I think.

I’m pretty sure that anyone who stops by here will remember hearing this at some point in the past.

There is only one small problem with that these days and I’m sure you have heard of that too.

While The Great Depression churned out an entire generation of Pack Rats out of necessity, things today are not what they were then.

All these electronic Gee Gaws and computerized everything that we have in this Modern Age are for the most part, unserviceable and made as cheaply as humanly possible.

Something that has been anathema to me for many, many, years.

Who really needs a refrigerator that can communicate with your garage door opener?

I sure as hell don’t.

Especially when that overpriced refrigerator has a service life of two freaking years before some totally unnecessary resistor craps out in a Motherboard and you get to find out that because of the Supply Chain crunch that no new Motherboards are available and aren’t expected to be for some indeterminant time frame.

Now what?

Go buy another new Whiz Bang computerized refrigerator?

See Supply Chain Crunch and then look up this thing you have been hearing about called Inflation just for fun.

This meme was assuredly made to be tongue in cheek but it speaks much truth.

Ha Ha Funny right?

Try to find one of those old appliances.

They are out there but the prices are going up every day.

It’s not that I am picking on refrigerators either.

Everything is like that now.

All Major Appliances these days are garbage in my opinion unless you can find Industrial stuff and even then they are all digitally controlled.

Clothes don’t last either.

Even Levi’s Blue Jeans suck now, even though I quit buying them twenty years ago when they went Anti Gun.

They were WAY ahead of the curve.

Carhart just went Woke so they can kiss me where I sit too.

Anybody want to talk about vehicles?

HA HA HA HA!

You couldn’t GIVE me a new car.

Well you could actually.

I would immediately turn around and sell that sucker then take the cash and go find me something fifty five or sixty years old that had been restored instead.

So this time around when everything goes to hell things are going to be very different.

Sure, Grandma’s will still be able to save and reuse Bacon Grease, Aluminum foil and Cool Whip bowls like mine did but other than that, there won’t be any wearing things out like it was back in the day.

Point and laugh all you want, that was my and who knows how many peoples reality back in the day.

Other than a very few things, stuff just breaks now.

Everything is made out of plastic and plastic just doesn’t have the life span of Cast Iron or Steel.

3d Printing will only be so much good for so many things.

So when it all comes crashing down this time I think it will be real interesting to see how people are going to cope compared to our ancestors.

I think it will be the same except different.

After a whole bunch of trial and error.

I also think that because of economic reasons, the demand for quality, durable goods is going to make a resurgence.

People are going to wake up to the fact that cheap isn’t as good as they were led to believe.

Then we have the looming World Wide Food Crisis staring us all in the face.

For those who may have never had to deal with being broke and hungry, take notes.

All theses people who have to have new cars, big houses and a bunch of fancy shit are going to have a very rude awakening in their near future.

Same same with MLLIONS of Snowflakes who have come of age never having known true hardship in their lives.

The days of Instant Gratification are coming to an end and the double whammy of twenty second memory spans so many people have is going to effectively double the intensity of the pain that is coming their way.

Basic freaking necessities are going to be front and center for everyone’s attention.

Lessons learned and long forgotten from The Great Depression are about to be relearned anew by generations who have absolutely no idea of what is coming.

Food Security is going to be a high priority for people who have never been hungry a day in their life and have no idea where what they eat even comes from.

Gardening is going to be HUGE, just like it was during World War II and the Victory Garden program.

Look for shortages of seeds and especially fertilizer to be in the news here real shortly.

Thanks to Wes, I am covered for seeds and then some.

God Bless You for that.

I mean that from the bottom of my heart.

He spent a lot of time gathering, drying, sorting, packaging and labeling up a big box of seeds for me.

More than I could possibly plant in the space I have available.

I already shared a few with a daughter who gardens, I don’t want them to go to waste.

Canning and Preserving are going to be hot topics soon also.

Ain’t nobody going to be able to afford extra running around anyway the way the prices of fuel are going.

Might as well start learning some skills people.

I’m thinking about starting some open threads, so those of you who already have those skills can maybe share some of that knowledge with the rest of us.

It is going to supremely important.

Hard times are here now, most people just don’t realize it yet.

They will soon enough.

We are going to be seeing things that haven’t been seen in this country in ninety years.

They have a steep learning curve ahead of them and very little time to catch up.

When they do wake up, every possible thing you can imagine food growing, storage and preservation wise is going to be unobtanium shortly afterward.

Think Morons and Toilet Paper.