Red State Green has yet another very interesting article, this time about the availability of our food supply.

The average person has about a week’s worth of food in their house at any given time. So what if something happened that made the problem worse? Suppose we had another OPEC oil embargo, like in the 70’s?

Gas stations ran out of gasoline quickly, and the price almost doubled overnight. Could you pay $6.00 a gallon tomorrow? That’s if you found a station open that still had gas.

This is an important issue. Think about it. Where does your food come from? Most is trucked in, some from other countries. Trucks run on diesel.

If the price of oil goes up, the price of food goes up too. People panic and empty shelves just like they do in any disaster or coming storm. Once you found an open station and paid double the price, you might get to the store and find nothing there. Now what?

Read the rest of her excellent piece here.

She makes an excellent point, if anything things would be even worse than there were in the 70’s. America has sprawled out into a vast nothingness called the suburbs. We live miles and miles away from where we work, where we shop, where we go to school. Without cheap gasoline all these super-burbs would become large groups of people with no food and no way to get to work. What would you do if the gas ran dry next week?