If you think gas (and food) are expensive now, give it a week.
That’s all it may take for the thing styled the “media” to whip up enough hysteria about the Danger of Putin to cause something far worse and even more idiotic than the pouring out of Russian Vodka into the sink.
That thing being the turning off of the Russian spigot.
America currently imports something on the order of 600,000 barrels of Russian oil every day – an amount about 200,000 barrels shy of the number of barrels America would not have to import from Russia, had the Biden Thing not cancelled the Keystone Pipeline, among other things. 
The deficit of those 200,000-something barrels per day – along with the other things of-a-piece done by the Biden Thing to reduce the supply of oil available to Americans – has helped to almost double the price of a gallon of gas over the course of a little more than one year since Orange Man Bad. And while he may, indeed, have been very bad – as by declaring (and continuing) an “emergency” when there wasn’t one and by turgidly Warp Speeding dangerous drugs not merely into existence but facilitated the forcing of them into the bodies of tens of millions of Americans – he was very good on the energy front.
It was only about a year ago that America didn’t need oil from Russia. It was only about a year ago that America was on the verge of being a net exporter of oil – perhaps to places like Russia.
In that case, America could have turned off the spigot – without Americans having to pay three times as much for a gallon of gas as they just may, soon, than they were paying when Orange Man Bad.
Americans ought to consider what that will mean – and whether it’s a cost they’re wanting (are able) to bear.
At $6 per gallon, it will cost the average American just shy of $100 to fill up the 15 gallon tank of the average compact-sized economy car; something in the Toyota Corolla class of car.
Assuming a once-a-week fill-up, the average American will be paying about $400 per month to get to work, in order to pay for that. Assuming it stays at just $6 per gallon – an unsafe assumption, if the Biden Thing stops importing Russian oil to punish the Russians by punishing Americans – the average American will be spending close to $5,000 annually on gas. For the same gas that he spent $30 to buy a tankful of when Orange Man Bad – or $120 per month ($1,440 per year).
His work is not likely going to give him a raise to compensate him for the difference.
Nor for the difference in what it costs him to eat.
Americans may not understand where their food comes from – nor how it is produced – much as they do not understand why the Russians are unsettled about this business of having a Western military alliance ensconced right up against the border of their country. But here’s the spoiler.
It requires oil.
A great deal of it, to create the fertilizer upon which crops depend. Upon which livestock depends, to grow into hamburger and pork chops. Without oil – or rather, without affordable oil – it not only gets more expensive to grow the crops, it gets harder to grow them. Modern industrial agriculture “guzzles” a great deal more gas – in the form of oil – than any V8-powered SUV.
Than all of them, combined.
Without the oil, you get the double whammy. Less food that costs more. And more to get that food to you. Trucks using oil, you see.
As well as for you to get to it.
Think about that a little bit.
How about $10 for a pound of ground round? How about no ground round, at all? It is a delicious irony – for those who appreciate it – that as the American regime fulminates against the Russian regime, America looks more and more like the Soviet regime.
Well, American supermarkets begin to look more and more like Soviet-era supermarkets, full of empty shelves and high prices. A kopek for your thoughts, comrade? American roads, too.
Or rather, soon will.
Lots of open roads – for the Party nomenklatura, people like the Biden Thing. They don’t have to worry about the cost of filling up, because they don’t have to pay it. The nomenklatura – whether then or there or here and now – never has to worry about such things. What they do worry about is a comfortable, well-fed population of citizens who don’t need them and for that reason can ignore them.
This is harder to do when your stomach – and your tank – are empty.
Or when you can’t afford to fill either.
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Am I the only one smelling the same kettle of bullshit being moved to a different burner?…
And THAT, Boys N Girls, is when the feces hits the Westinghouse, when people are hungry and pissed off at the people that are pissing on them.
Got Food Storage and Precious metals in good supply? If not, too late. Why weren’t you listening??
It will start in the large urban areas when the EBT cards fail or cannot buy enough food. The natives, who rely on freebies, will start to forage. It will not be TLPTB that feel their wrath, but their well off fellow city dwellers. If you live in the big city, it is almost too late to get out and you need to plan accordingly.
Much of my adult life I have thought about how bad it could get when the USD collapses, but I am afraid it will be much worse than I ever imagined and I think we are knocking on the door.
What would happen if North Dakota and other oil-producing states told the feds to eff-off and just started pumping?
Rupert, I was having the EXACT same conversation just last night. What if…Congress does its damn job and tells Biden to Fuck Right Off and reinstates the pipeline? Drilling? Sure, the idiots in CA are maybe OK with $7 per gallon gas. The rest of us? Not so much. How about when gas in CA is $10 per gallon? $15? What then? Will they be OK with it? Cue stealing tanker trucks and siphoning from cars.
I am old enough, barely, to remember waking at 4am to go wait with my parents for their turn to get gas that week during the early 70’s. It was not good.
We may very well see Congress grow a set when mid terms come to pass…but that also depends on voter fraud being nipped in the bud.
If it is not nipped in the bud, and Mordor continues unabated via voter fraud, then states may well and truly exert some State’s Rights and STILL tell The Two Minute Egg to Fuck Right Off and do what they have to do.
And at this point, I am quite sure absolutely ZERO people actually WANT to go fight in the Ukraine. After all, it’s way easier to virtue signal on Meta, bake Ukranian cookies, and pour out ‘Russian’ vodka than to actually commit to a war.
We are reaching a point of no return on certain things. Let’s see exactly what those things are.
This is a liberal’s wet dream. People will not be able to drive because it is too expensive and they will not be eating meat because it is too expensive. We’ll all be forced to be bike-riding vegans.
I think I’ll kill a obese liberal first so I can use the whale oil in my car and eat the meat.
This appears by ALL sides a program to destroy We of the Peasant Class.
Russia is complicit is stopping grain production. And I support Putins actions too protect it self by Russias invasion.
There is a one world government and all nations have been dancing to their tune for many years.
If you start your first garden this Spring, you may have soil preparation problems the first year, excessive weeds, poor soil nutrition and need expensive supplements, and face shortages of seeds; but you will be ahead of 300 million lazy Americans who haven’t started a garden yet.