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Thanks thuja, mekrob, that helps. BigTex, not sure if that was a serious response as is your point there won't be any stores so this heavy bag of metal not helpful to carry around?

I think of the ...

Someone please tell me what you're expecting to do with that silver (or gold). Do you believe hyperinflation will devalue the dollar to the extent that you'll need to sell the silver in the future in ...

Shannymara-
Okay, so in the hyperinflation of the future, how do you expect to convert your silver back into cash (or goods)? Sell them back to the dealer? I'm just curious what people think in thi ...

What is the best to buy? Silver Eagles? Where's the best to get them? If hyperinflation takes place years from now, how do I sell then to get cash (or do people expect to start using them at the su ...

I am thinking of hoarding granulated sugar, won't it keep forever if in an airtight package? Probably it's going to get expensive fast, it has to travel far, right?

RdSnt-
The Hubbert curve is not related perfectly to the extraction rate of a single well. At its most basic, it merely says that production increases exponentially in the early years before the pea ...

I continue to be somewhat surprised in these threads that no one employs Hubbert analysis to examine the issue. After all, that is what "peak oil" implies, that production curves are deterministic. ...

As I've posted before, my lifetime mpg on my Insight is 63.6. It could easily be 75 if I drove slower. The above is averaging 70 on the freeway. I've measured fairly accurately a 1/v2 dependence on ...

I have been plotting EIA crude+condensate data. I'd love to share the graphs, but cannot figure out how to paste them in a reply. Can someone tell me how?

Right- no one wants to car pool, and driving half as much as the month before, what does that mean, what do you cut out? Everyone has to work, I don't intend to stop driving for work. But the "road ...

Gasoline consumption goes up about 7 % from February to July. What is that, is it just idiots driving to disneyworld? So, could we cut peak demand by 7 % if people just stayed close to home?

alokin-
My "horse farm" is of course supported by hay and grain inputs, we don't have nearly enough land to support them. Note that this worries me greatly, as there are no simple stockpiling techni ...

I have a small horse farm and am amazed at how little they have to eat given their size: about 25 pounds hay and 10 pounds grain per day. For a machine that can put out close to a kilowatt peak power ...

Get some head-mounted LED flashlights so you can see what you're doing when the blackouts start. Rotating blackouts seem inevitable within 5 years. Also within 5 years natural gas supplies will drop ...

Anyone who is preparing would be stupid to let the world know.