I go to the commissary every payday. I always buy 2 MRE’s at the commissary every time I go if they have them. Sometimes they don’t have any. I bought 2 today. I do not have a years worth for me and mine though. This payday I also bought a box of 9mm cartridges at the cheapest big box store.
Buy guns, ammo and store food (Meals Ready to Eat)
I watched the beginning of The Road Warrior before I fell asleep on the couch last night. I have seen the movie a million times but did not realize that the opening monologue was talking about Peak Oil. Basically it was talking about the end of oil. It says, “Without fuel they were nothing. They’d built a house of straw.” These lines premiering in 1981 were prophetic. I think the results of cities exploding will be the same. I think very few people will have gas when rationing is instituted.
Here is the whole Road Warrior opening monologue, “My life fades, my vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos, ruined dreams, this wasted land. Most of all, I remember the man we called Max, the road warrior. To understand who he was we have to go back to the other time. When the world was powered by the black fuel, and the desert sprung great cities of pipe and steel. Gone now, swept away. For reasons long forgotten two mighty warrior tribes went to war and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel they were nothing. They’d built a house of straw. Suddenly their machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked, but nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. Cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting and a firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men. On the roads it was a white-line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, waging war for a tank of juice. Good brave men were battered and smashed. Men like Max, who ruled the highways in the name of the law. Who became a lover, husband, father. And with the roar of an engine, he lost everything, his woman, his child, his world. He wandered out into the wasteland, and here he would learn, amid the dark wreckage, that the fire which burns in the heart of man, will endure. Hope survives.”
As I watched the movie what I thought was cool was the anti-vehicle ditch dug around the desert oil refinery. I should have paid attention to how they built their palisade walls.
Tagged anti-vehicle ditch, gas rationing, movie review, Peak Oil, shtf, TEOTWAWKI, wshtf
