Guest Post by Eric Peters
Have you given any thought to what it will mean to you when gas costs $5 per gallon – which is likely, given how much gas costs already?
The average cost of gas is already over $3.20 per gallon, a halting increase of $1.20 per gallon over the course of less than 10 months. Try to imagine what it will cost ten months from now.
It may cost more than you can imagine. More than you can afford.
For openers, because of the artificial costs imposed by the regime that successfully supplanted the Orange Man, via the unvetted counting of as many absentee ballots as it took. Whatever his many faults – among the worst, his failure to prevent the counting of all those unvetted absentee ballots rather than bitch about the count, after they were counted – his policies allowed the cost of gas to lower, naturally.
There was – there is – plenty of oil (the raw material out of which gas is percolated) and Orange Man’s policies encouraged oil companies to explore for it, encouraged pipelines to be made to deliver it and for these reasons, Americans were paying less for gas than Americans had been paying in at least 30 years.
Keep in mind that there is at least 50 cents in federal/sate taxes baked into the price of every gallon of gasoline. Thus, the gas that was priced at around $1.99 per gallon when the Orange Man was ensconced ten months ago actually cost just $1.50 or so.
It now costs much more than that, without taxes having been raised at all. But the cost of the new regime’s cancellation of pipelines combined with its obvious intent to cripple exploration has caused there to be less oil extracted – and delivered – which has artificially increased the cost of gas.
There is also inflation – another artificially induced cost-increaser that works just like a tax by making the money you’re left with buy less. Inflation has at least doubled under the regime of the Orange Man’s manufactured replacement and there are no signs it will abate.
Thus, costs will increase.
Let’s try to imagine what it means – by considering what it already costs.
The average car carries about 15 gallons of gasoline. Just ten months ago, it cost about $30 to fill that tank. The typical driver fills up once a week, so four times a month – so $120 per month for gas, or about $1,400 per year.
Today – right now – it costs almost $50 to fill up the same car. So $200 per month – and $2,400 per year. Which means the average driver is already paying $1,000 more per year for gas, right now.
What will he be paying ten months from now?
At $5 per gallon – a natural extrapolation of current trends – he will be paying $75 per tank, or $300 per month – as much as another car payment – and $3,600 per year. Which is almost enough to buy another car. Or rather, was – when a good used car could be bought for such a sum.
Which was about ten months ago. Now it’s hard to find a running car for that sum, because the cost of used cars has blown up along with the cost of everything else, including gas.
Project ten months down the road from now – or even six. Will you be able to afford to continue driving, when (not if) gas costs more than $4 per gallon? Many people won’t be able to – and the social-political ramifications of this are considerable.
It is probably a good idea to start thinking about what’s coming now, before you are faced with no longer being able to afford to drive – which could mean no longer being able to live where you do and work where you do.
I touched on this matter in a column about Emergency Bikes – i.e, motorcycles – the thesis of which is that owning a motorcycle (or scooter) could be a way to continue to be able to live where you do and get to where you have to go, i.e., to work.
Assuming, of course, that work still exists.
This artificial engineering of energy scarcity – which is deliberate – is going to cost us more than what we pay to put into our tanks. At $5 per gallon, trucking companies may no longer be able to afford to ship goods – and food. Or rather, the costs they must pass on will reach a point at (and beyond) which people can no longer pay them.
Everything collapses, grinds to a halt.
Which, I suspect, is precisely what these creatures want.
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I told my kids to prepare for $6 to $8 per gallon next year. I think it would be smart to hold back a commuting fund if your budget is already tight.
What is everyone getting so worked up about???
This is all part of the agenda(think 2030 and WEF) and is designed to help crash our economy and country and government purposely.
Prepare now, you are significantly more aware of the magnitude of the problem and can do something, even late is better then never.
That light you think you see, at the end of the tunnel???
It’s not the sun coming up for a new day…it’s the oncoming train of democrats prepared to run you, me, and anyone and anything else in their way.
Time to dig up the tracks, and come up with a few other tricks to derail our (((common enemy))).
Steel your hearts and souls, y’all.
It’s gonna get real salty, real soon.
Just “what” will trigger the everyday American into saying, EHOUGH OF THIS CRAP? Don’t forget if gas for your car goes up this much that increase will be reflected in cost of food, winter heating, electricity, summer cooling, lumber, paper to wipe with, and anything else that uses basic energy.
My daughter was driving 39 miles to and from work. She now works from home.Great timing.
Nothing will ever cause an “Effective Revolt,” NO country in
recorded history ever got rid of it’s corrupt government.
The corrupt government is a mirror image of the corrupt
population.
In Nature and all life of every living thing there exists only two types, The Predator and the Prey in waiting with the dance between the two. The contest is for everything that exists.
Society , The general population plays it’s own survival games
but the general population is only the low hanging expendable fruit for the super Predators which are the Governments of the world, Their contest is for each others countries aided by the
Stupid general populations which assist them being fed some
believable patriotic hog wash as needed to get Y’all exactly
where you are, by design there is no escape from a very bad ending. The governments will never allow global Unity of the
populations as it would be the end of them. That is why the world is divided into many countries.
Wither you like it or not, ALL life came from Nature on this planet,
It is your World, Not the little piece of it that you are assigned to
by governments. When You are all willing to see it that way then and only then will you be able to have a chance to get rid of your enslavers. Nature gave you the World, Governments assigned you to countries.
Didn’t read your entire post, but I can still point out that one corrupt government can indeed be replaced, at least by another corrupt government… or worse.
Consider this happens by design by an organization higher than the governments.
For now, my work commute is into a city and can use public transportation; however, the trip back to my hometown is $80, up from $50. Already told family to expect fewer trips in.
Fuck you Biden. None of this pretend Brandon shit.
I take your point yes Fuck Joe Biden, but Let’s Go Brandon, it’s a meme, and every one knows what it means, and yet the tech tyrants and media and FCC can’t respond to it by banning it because then they would have to admit it exists.
So every time a call in show on the radio, or TimCast or other youtubers, or that child who did it on national tv say Let’s Go Brandon, people hear Fuck Joe Biden. It was a gift from leftists media, just like the term fake news, and we should use it every time we can’t say Fuck Joe Biden.
At this point it Let’s Go Brandon is to Fuck Joe Biden as the word theater is to the word cinema
Just remember who really caused all this.
Every single person that voted for Joe Biden.
The sweet little old ladies. Our Children’s school teachers. Every person that everyone continuously justifies as really nice people except that……
Everyone that voted for Biden literally and directly did this to all of us.
The closest station to me and where I buy gas most of the time is now at 4.69 a gal.
My truck has about a 24 gal tank so yeah that’s well over $100 for a tank full, and that’s now so if it goes up from here …… well shits getting real.
I have a chevy cargo van, great van and it gets about fourteen miles to the gallon and the fuel tank holds 31 gallons. Gas here is now $2.90 a gallon. I imagine it will be three dollars before the month is out. I paid twenty dollars for less than a quarter tank today….so $93 to fill the tank…fuck you very much Joe Biden.
The highest selling models in America for years have been trucks. They really need to punish the climate deniers.
The think Eric Peters is a visionary. His accuracy is frightening.
Also, his articles on PDJT, specifically “What If Orange Fail Was Actually a Success?” and “The Orange Fail Fires Fauci” made me regret ever buying that red hat. Which made me sad, and embarrassed.
They will eventually just stop selling gas to those unvaxed white supremacist terrorists. Count on it.
I’m paying $4.79, Chevron, 87 oct., SF Bay Area.
I’d move.
Anybody who ‘lives’ in the SF Bay Area needs mental health help.
It’s $2.99 here in SEMO
$3.09 in small town Iowa
It’s all deliberately being done. They are working to bring down the US and world’s economy in order to get the great re set.
And it will cause a lot of financial pain for everyone. However I think they will fail because the ongoing collapse when it is finished, will take them down as well. The elite Davos whores can dream of replumbing the world economic system, but to do that they have to destroy what currently exists, what they can’t control is what takes its place.
Especially since the advent of bitcoin, which along with Trump, forced them to act prematurely. And they can only take down bitcoin by crashing the Internet, and without the Internet they would lose access to their own FIAT.
The cost of gasoline is up 30% over the last year in dollars and down 75% in BTC.
I don’t understand Bitcoin (or blockchain), but hasn’t China recently taken steps to make Bitcoin unavailable or unworkable to its citizens? Could those same steps be undertaken here and elsewhere?
You mean could people in the West with tens of thousands, or even millions, of dollars stuffed into bitcoin wallets suddenly and permanently lose every cent of their money?
No. That would never happen.
Never.
Riiiight.
If you’re using a exchange like coinbase, absolutely. If you use an off line paper wallet or just have the keys on a flash drive, then no, not so much. They can’t touch it. But if you lose that key you’re screwed as well. Remember that guy in the UK who tossed away a old hard drive with 7500 BTC? Worth about 400 million USD. Don’t be that guy either.
Never happen?
Did you leave off the /s on purpose?
Impossible!
If you’re Chinese and had money in BTC in your own paper wallet on the blockchain, which you could access with the private keys or even via a code phrase if you set it up that way. Then you didn’t lose anything. It’s sort of like a cyber treasure trove, except no one is going to dig it up on you, unless they get the keys or code.
If you’re in Red China you may have to leave the country to utilize BTC, or you could wait until the Reds capitulate to the inevitable and decide taxing it is better than banning it
The reds banned BTC and it dropped, the Fed attacked it, and it dropped then as well and now it is back, and more so, Can’t stop the signal Mal
People here don’t want to learn about BTC. maybe if I said it kept the Jews’ hands off your money it would get support here. the Bankers hate Bitcoin. Watch it skyrocket next week when Bitcoin ETFs,s start happening. About a week ago I said here it was at 50.000 and now it’s at almost 62.000. Keep it in a cold wallet and live and bank on a phone in many parts of the world.
Yup a cold wallet is the way to go.
My sister and I have been watching Max Keiser for years, trying to get family members into BTC since it was at about $1200.00,
Last March I was practically begging family members to but in at 5 K they all ignored me.
At this point if people haven’t figured it out I’m not going to waste my time explaining it to them.
This artificial crisis will come to its fruition around 2024, just in time for (s)elections, but this time the bubble’s going to bust; the Fed is seeing to that.
Gas shortages; food shortages; power shortages; just about everything we count on is going to fail, and probably right when it’s needed most. If you think this is overreaction, take a look at the world around you right now and tell me this is not the direction in which we are headed. The economy is being stressed to its absolute limits so that it will implode, and all our paper money worthless (as if it isn’t already). There is no turning back, this is going to happen, so denial (not that river in Egypt) is not an option.
Protect your property and your family by getting out of debt as quickly as you can. The clock is ticking, and there’s a bomb attached. Buy storables. Be prepared.
I would say in jest “If we’re all still here in 2024, we’ll see…” but somehow that’s not as funny as it used to be. A lot of people are going to die in the near future. I may be among them.
I pretty much agree with that, except I don’t envision things lasting into 2024, you may be right, but if we make it to June 2022 without a total collapse I would be greatly pleased, as it is right now I would not be surprised to see the wheels come off in the next few.months.
With
A 2022 collapse, the elections cancelled and the current members of congress allowed to continue as a American version of the Long Parliament, under an emergency declaration.
If you gotta go, as we all must, do yourself, and the rest of us, a YYYUUUIGGGEEE favor….
Take as many of (((them))) with you as you can….
Rising prices on gas and bourbon made it harder and harder to escape.
Try vodka.
Set up a still to make ethanol for your vehicle, perfectly legal to do so, atf will give you a free license, and if you happen to have some wooden barrels to store it in even better, no worries about spark induced accidents..right?
Only problem with those wooden barrels is there may be some leaking or evaporation, it is to be expected that it all won’t go in your tank because of this.
Thanks Eddy and Warren. If I set up a still it won’t be for the cars and trucks. Pretty easy to drive less… The bourbon is for psychological escape ,vehicle for physical. I try not to do both at the same time.
If you can get wacky tabaccy seeds you may not need a still.
So glad my starting location changed a few years back. 30-something to 6 miles. Even with cheap fuel it was like getting a raise and more time in the day.
Unfortunately diesel gas gone up 35 cents the last 2 weeks. Thanks Joe Biden!
We will have to remember where the ‘Biden For President’ lawn signs were located so we know where to go to siphon gas. You know that there will not be any guns there.
It’s hard to forget or forgive anyone with the Biden Harris signs, because they are part of the 50million. people who actually voted for the death of the country. I hate them
We often joke about the “wokest house in the neighborhood.” We have mayoral and city council elections coming up, and that house is just doubling down.
We’ve got a chubby little marxist running for mayor, and he’s got a highly organized group of marxist assholes running for city council positions. Make no mistake, these people have their shit together.
I know that house, as do many of my neighbors. Did I mention we have street lamps in our neighborhood?
After the dying is over prices will fall.
Bob understands supply and demand. 🙂
As a child my natural inclination was to become a mechanic, not like they are today technicians, but an actual mechanic. So I became a gear head. One thing I learned early on, that in every machine, in every system that parts in a machine are where they are for a purpose.
And sure you can pull of some of the pollution control crap and an engine may still run, but if you take out even just one part of what actually makes a vehicle run, then it won’t.
The economy is like that, sure there is a lot of redundancy, but as we’re seeing with American and South West air, if you remove the right number of people from certain positions then the company will grind to a halt.
Do that across a few industries, at the same time and the US and world’s economy will grind to a halt, as it is already on the verge of doing. If there’s even a 10% across the board die off, concurrently, probably even just 5%, then the whole system will shut down, it’s already happening, because of different reasons, mandates and government incompetence.
There will be no supply of gasoline, or anything else because there will be no supply chain to distribute it.
They are throwing their shoes into the machines and the resultant chaos is an achievement to them. As this all progresses I’ll be counting on them being incompetent.
One guy’s mass extinction event is another guy’s opportunity. Of course, that ‘other guy’ may not speak your language or look like you.
So it goes. America first, IMHO, but Europe farther. Long term, hope for those of European extraction lies mostly with Russians and Latin Americans.
Ha ha, we pay $7 a gallon here in Australia, keep up you guys
Same here in Central Europe.
You’re also only able to leave your house for two hours a day. That’s not a lifestyle I care to be a part of.
No we don’t. But it is expensive. Currently around $4.33 US. And it is heavily taxed.
$9.07 here in NZ as of yesterday, and that is only for 91. 95 &98 are more expensive again
I paid the equivalent of $7.89 gallon last week. Have to remember that a UK gallon is 160 fluid ounces, an American gallon is about 128 fl oz.
And the imperial pint is larger as well, which I discovered while in an pub over there, a 20 ounce pint is sooo much more civilized than the American one by comparison.
I lived in Germany and we took a trip to Holland. We had a big van which was not a fuel sipper.
It cost $200 to fill it up and it took 2 tanks ($400) to get where we were headed. Ouch.
an dont forget the .08 cents per mile they want to tax us. so add another $1.60 to $4.00 per gallon.
The higher it goes, the fewer numbskulls I have to contend with on the roads. So, it is not all bad news.
I’m looking into pony carts….or donkey, depends. I may start looking into an ox or two. The suggestion is also for mechanical bicycles…if you have a means to charge them, scooters may be an option. I see lots of old fat farts tooling along the side of the road in their scooters. Tractor mowers are another option.
An ox or two hooked up to that chev van would make a statement.
Straight outta Cuba…