DD Support Board and Research Team

[shajandr]

To-wit:

https://doomberg.substack.com/p/farmers-on-the-brink?s=r

'Even generously assuming farmers can cobble together enough fertilizer, herbicide, machinery, and labor to produce a good harvest this fall, they may be left to deal with yet another crisis of supply that few off the field have on their radar: propane.

We believe we are at the onset of a global famine of historic proportions. In a staggering defiance of logic, many US politicians are still attacking the lifeblood of our own energy production infrastructure, looking to score political points against “the other team,” blaming price-taking producers of global commodities for gouging, threatening producers of energy with windfall profits taxes, resisting calls to remove bureaucratic hurdles to new production, and refusing to open an introductory physics textbook to help guide them through the suite of policy choices that require true leadership to get right. They remain stuck in an endless loop of platitudes, blamestorming, corruption, and ignorance.

As Eisenhower aptly identifies in our opening quote, distance has an anesthetizing effect on the observer of any occurrence. One wonders how many people will starve before our politicians get serious. The populations most at risk of falling off the edge are half a world away and we worry that that number is uncomfortably high.

At Doomberg, we pride ourselves on seeing patterns early and being months ahead of the news flow. We are consistently human-centric. Never have we been more certain in our beliefs while fervently wishing that we are wrong. A global famine is no joke, and correctly forecasting one would bring no joy.'

Here at the Best Coast Hacienda, we use propane for heat and cooking. Fortunately we have a wood-burning stove (from Belgium) that will heat most of the Hacienda hovel if need be - at least heat the non-bedroom living areas (and I can use the central heating/AC fan to circulate that heat to the bedroom areas as needed). And I have acres of trees, many old oaks, that I can use for feedstock (currently have a cord-and-a-half of seasoned oak) and I will likely stockpile more to season over the summer, just in case. Butt that does little for the farmers and their need for propane.