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Date: November 12, 2017 at 12:58:44
From: chatillion, [DNS_Address]
Subject: When The Trucks Stop The Store Shelves Will Go Bare: Alice Friedemann |
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4MU74p_IyQ |
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Published on Oct 4, 2016
Today's Guest: Alice Friedemann
Websites:
Energy Skeptic
http://energyskeptic.com
Book:
When Trucks Stop Running
http://amzn.to/2dpP6B2
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Date: November 12, 2017 at 13:02:23
From: chatillion, [DNS_Address]
Subject: In Just 5 Days Without Trucks, Chaos Would Erupt in America |
URL: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/11/daisy-luther/in-just-5-days-without-trucks-chaos-would-erupt-in-america/ |
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By Daisy Luther
The Organic Prepper
November 9, 2017
Have you ever thought about how fast things could go sideways in America? What if we went 5 days without trucks moving supplies across the country? Have you considered how JUST ONE THING could change the world as we know it?
The video below has been around for several years, but if you haven’t seen it in a while, it is worth watching again.
Think for a moment about what would happen if the trucks stopped running. The trucking industry is the lifeblood of this country, and according to this, it would only take 5 days without trucks for all hell to break loose.
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In only 5 days without trucks, everything would change.
In only five days, with only one component of our economy missing, we could be without medication, food, gasoline, and sanitation. We would be unable to travel great distances easily, as airports would close.
Think about it:
•No toilet paper.
•No laundry detergent.
•No fresh fruits and vegetables.
•No fresh milk.
•No garbage trucks picking up waste and no way to get to the dump.
•The banks would close.
•No parts would be available for things that need repair.
•We couldn’t refill prescription medications.
•No gasoline would be available.
Panic would erupt.
It’s that easy for all hell to break loose. Five days without the regular delivery of supplies and our country could devolve into chaos. And if it was longer than 5 days without trucks, the initial panic would be a G-rated movie compared to what would come next.
We live in a just-in-time society.
Most retail stores no longer stock up on food but have a “just in time” ordering system that relies on regular shipments.
Just-In-Time (JIT) inventory refers to an inventory management method whereby the goal is to have inventory readily available to meet demand, without having any excess quantities on hand. With this approach, merchants can hold minimal stock supplies while ensuring stock-outs don’t happen during peak selling periods. Balancing the goals of avoiding stock-outs while minimizing inventory costs is at the heart of JIT. (source)
If those shipments aren’t coming in, then the shelves will be bare in very short order. People will see the store getting more empty, and this will compel them to buy everything they can get their hands on until there is truly nothing left.
People live a just-in-time life, too.
Most folks grocery shop once a week, and some hit the store every couple of days. Aside from preppers and people who live by the pantry philosophy, many Americans couldn’t get by for more than a week without a trip to the store. Most folks no longer produce. They just consume. They’d be lost if they were forced to suddenly produce after a lifetime of consumerism.
Imagine if the stores were empty because of a transportation shut-down. What would those biweekly shoppers do? They’d be in really bad shape, that’s what. And that is when desperation would kick in.
We’d see an uptick in crime as people who were desperate to feed their children committed acts they would never have imagined before. We’d see a surge in criminal behavior as others realized that there were no first responders to stop them. It would be the very definition of all hell breaking loose.
The vulnerability and dependency of many Americans is truly astonishing, and most of those people don’t even realize they are at such great risk.
You can prepare for this.
So, think about it. What are the things you personally buy each week? Maybe now is the time to build yourself a shelf-stable stockpile of the important items like milk and eggs. Maybe you need to focus on building your pantry before something happens to make that impossible.
This “one thing” is the transportation industry but there are other “one things” that could cause utter destruction. The vulnerable power grid, a massive cyber-attack that shut down banking…the list of “one things” could go on and on.
Think about how susceptible you are to a shutdown in industry and make an effort to change that. Start growing food. Start stockpiling. Start producing instead of consuming to insure yourself against this type of disaster.
Reprinted with permission from The Organic Prepper.
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Daisy Luther [send her mail] is a freelance writer and editor. Her website, The Organic Prepper, offers information on healthy prepping, including premium nutritional choices, general wellness and non-tech solutions. You can follow Daisy on Facebook and Twitter.
Copyright © 2017 The Organic Prepper
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Date: November 13, 2017 at 05:57:24
From: Kat, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: In Just 5 Days Without Trucks, Chaos Would Erupt in America |
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This info is more true than most even want to think about. Everything
in stores is delivered by trucks. Everything! We’d all be in a
desperate way if the trucks stopped! Kat
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Date: December 11, 2017 at 10:35:32
From: chaskuchar@nebr, [DNS_Address]
Subject: practice living with what you have for experience. |
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learn to make what you have to buy or determine the basics you need to live on. we are spoiled now in this modern age. Africa can survive without trucks... chas
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Date: December 12, 2017 at 05:55:09
From: Kat, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: practice living with what you have for experience. |
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I don’t think 🤔 that most could live with what they have on hand today. There in lies the problem.
Even as a young child we had a small family owed store within a city
block away. We still ate what we had. Beans and corn bread, fried
potatoes, our diet was very limited. We also ate what was on the
table or we didn’t eat at all. Not like kids today, picky eaters!
Hamburgers on sat. (Home made)Pork backs(we raised the pork on
our Grandmothers farm) in the beans during the week. Maybe once
in a while we would have a green salad. In summer, a water Mellon.
I didn’t know what fresh real vegetables were or how to cook them till
after I got married.
Now, I can pressure cook meat in canning jars and have it on the
shelf. Cooked in it’s own juices.
God willing we will have a home with garden space in the future.
Stewed tomatoes, I love canned apples.
For now, I do what I can to keep my shelf’s full. So we don’t have to
depend on trucks. But most do.
Not to mention we are not a third world country. Kat
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Date: December 11, 2017 at 11:00:41
From: Just Forum Fan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: practice living with what you have for experience. |
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Good point! The great majority of Afghanis live off-grid. When the sun does another Carrington, they won't notice much difference in their way of life.
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Date: March 06, 2018 at 15:45:25
From: chaskuchar@nebr, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: practice living with what you have for experience. |
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seer said one of the last things that would happen was the north and south poles will switch. I worked with electromagnetism with dr justensen at the va hospital in Kansas city in the 80's. learned a lot about that from him. chas
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Date: November 12, 2017 at 14:31:03
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: In Just 5 Days Without Trucks, Chaos Would Erupt in America |
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yeah...had a mini episode with hurricane in FL...
shudder to think what occur if trucking stopped.
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Date: November 13, 2017 at 10:37:24
From: Leslie, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: In Just 5 Days Without Trucks, Chaos Would Erupt in America |
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Those of us who were around in the 70's saw this nationwide.
The time the fuel prices went thru the roof the truckers were having trouble fueling and also getting fuel as there was a ration of fuel if you remember; I sure do.
The trucks basically did stop or were slowed in delivery because of fuel and it did create a lot of problems although not as bad as it would today.
The JITD (Just In Time Delivery ) idea was just coming in then so most stores had a good stock of the non-perishable foods and necessary items from TP on down.
Of course with the stupid laws of taxing inventory in stores that were coming in the JITD looked real good since the stores did not need to stock a large inventory to be taxed on and could rely on trucks for a JITD of goods.
Today, well, you better have your stock of TP and on down for when TSHTF.
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