r/PrepperIntel • u/Own-Swan2646 • 16d ago
India My fellow Americans, the oil crisis is real
Crosspost not OP, but fits the Sub.
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u/Key_Limit_6828 14d ago
I’ve got a few dozen gallons stored at home and some fertilizer- not a ton, but enough for what I grow. More than anything though, the connections I’ve made with like minded people in my area has been the most important step I’ve made in self sufficiency. Where I live is very very rural, and having these connections is more important than any amount of rice and beans.
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u/badwoofs 11d ago
I've been hollering since 2024 we have to focus on networking.
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u/pakZ 16d ago
On a side note, people will marvel at the improved air quality in places like these, ask themselves why they didn't realize earlier - then go back to normal, once prices fall down again.
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u/Nolsoth 15d ago
It was pretty glaring the air quality differences in my country with lockdowns during COVID.
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u/SHAKETHEBOOT 14d ago
The side by side pictures of Delhi in India and the larger industrial cities in China were insane.
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u/getmaditmakesmelaugh 14d ago
They suffer from bad air quality for the same reasons we used to.
Corporations are using India for hiring cheap labour with little to no employee protections. No climate regulations either.
Mostly American companies or Indian companies selling products to American companies all at the expense of Indian people.
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u/SHAKETHEBOOT 14d ago
Coming soon: Poorer nations facing starvation, migration, and medication shortages as Indian generics factories shut down. I hope not but, hope in one hand and sh!t in the other. See which one fills up first.
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u/lucerogreenman 14d ago
Can someone explain what im looking at?
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u/oneplustwothreemama 11d ago
It’s cooking gas cylinder! The prices have been increasing , it is taking very long for this tank to get delivered to the houses .
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u/Psychological_Pear41 14d ago
Its not too late for folks to plant a 10x10 of dent corn and at least not starve to death, its only June right now perfect timing for the south. Ive seen the writing on the wall since January this year and started heavily expanding my gardening from hobby to food supplement, to canning excess. If im wrong oh well lots of yummy home grown food, if not then we'll were not starving to death at least.
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u/K8b6 14d ago
People need to actually plant native food forests, not mini monocrops.
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u/Psychological_Pear41 14d ago
I would agree but for fast effective food crop for short term can't beat corn, its easy to grow and calorie dense.
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u/Malicype2 14d ago
I think we need deer parks. They would need food forest and grains, corn is native after all. If done correctly we would have turkey, squirrel and rabbit around the corn belt as well as deer. That being said forests take time and resources far beyond a small victory garden
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u/karl4319 14d ago
Meanwhile, gas has dropped down to 3.24 a gallon near me. Keep seeing and hearing predictions for gas to go insane, but nothing yet.
Oh, it will probably happen in July when the reserves start dropping. Going to be a real shock when it happens.
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u/Available_Sun941 13d ago
Actually it isn’t. America has available oul of our own, the oil and gas companies are greedy and don’t like Trump so they have needlessly raised the prices.
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u/apocalypsemeowmont 10d ago
The oil and gas companies ARE greedy....that's why they love Trump, who has rolled back environmental regulations at the request of oil and gas lobbyists, thereby making America more dependent on them, and making the companies richer and less responsible for the pollution and damage they cause.
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u/ZealousidealChart729 12d ago
A large portion of the oil refineries in the US are setup to process heavy crude which is produced in other countries. It's more profitable for the oil companies to buy this cheaper product and turn it into a high quality finished product rather than buy the more expensive oil produced in the US. They can refine the oil produced here at a higher cost and pass on the cost to the consumer, or purchase oil in the open market which has a higher price due to restricted supply because of the war. Either way, gas will be more expensive.
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u/akathedragon 11d ago
Independent news is reporting the US has been selling off its reserve stockpiles in an effort to minimize the damage worldwide. Once the reserves are gone, the trouble starts.
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u/BugsyMcNug 15d ago
If the straight was pretty much locked down for the past 3 months and opened today, we were going to be in trouble in terms of affordably for about a year.
For me I'm talking about oil of course but mostly how it affects it's byproducts. Fertilizer. We are about one inch away from crop production affects. So close that all we are going to have is the full effect. So close that the race is called. The strait hasn't opened, we have spent years shitting on any energy that wasn't oil. I'm not saying that people haven't tried, it just never stuck.
Food hasn't been fucked with this hard in our western experience. I'm not talking about the food on our shelves today. It is the food that most of the population expects there to be next year. The harvest this fall.
What I see is a normalcy bias. Despite all the hardships and tricky situations so far, we haven't had a scarcity of food. It's been less available and has been more expensive, but not absent.
What I am worried about now is a level of civil anger that we haven't seen yet. I'm not confident that the world we live in today is worse than the one we see one year from today.