Safety in a Failing Economy

[SoNotHer]

There's a gentleman in my community who has made it his mission to tell anyone he meets about Peak Oil. If you aren't aware of the term, the theory and the period we are in and about to enter, familiarize yourself please.

There is a movement called "Transition Towns" that is based on the idea that the easy, cheap oil has largely been found and the idea of transporting things from great distances at a hefty environmental cost (if not yet an economic one) is unsustainable.

Here are a couple videos and links on Peak Oil and the Transition Towns movement:

Originally Posted by Blade

One thing that those of us who think our survival skills are honed well, don't really think of or at least I know I don't is gasoline. I live quite a few miles from town and I no longer have a horse. So if gasoline wasn't available or was expensive I'd have to figure out something there.

I believe it was 2008 a hurricane hit the gulf coast and it made gas here in the Carolina's hard to come by. I also remember we never thought hurricane Hugo could possibly come this far inland. I happened to see a gas truck at a convience store, it was a small local company's truck. The driver thankfully filled my tank for like $3 a gallon. LOL we think that is cheap now but trust me it wasn't in 1989. Actually pumping it off the truck is illegal.

But it is something to think about. How would those of us who live "out of town" get to town to get supplies if gas was hard to come by or if we couldn't afford it.