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Letter Re: The Eastern Canada Gasoline Crisis
Hi James,
It's interesting to look at what's going on here in Ontario. The gasoline
[filling] station near my office has been out of gas for two days,
and others have been out for varying amounts of time. A friend of mine
delivers fuel to gas stations, and was telling me what is happening:
1) There is a rail strike at CN Rail. This has prevented refineries
from receiving shipments of the additives needed for diesel and gasoline.
2) There was a fire at one of the Ontario refineries, cutting production
significantly. This fire occurred on February 15, and by two weeks
later we are in shortages.
The Ontario Premier has asked the fuel suppliers to make sure that
no towns run completely dry, and the suppliers are saying that we should
be back to normal within two weeks.
Ontario has a reasonable supply of crude oil, with southern Ontario
having a large number of wells. However, this situation highlights
how fragile our fuel infrastructure it. One fire in one unit at one
foundry, and a disturbance in the rail system has driven Ontario to
a fuel crisis
in a matter of two weeks. In light of this, I'm starting to realize
that generators won't do us much good when TSHTF,
since we'll be pretty much out of fuel not long after that. Even those
people that have large reserves of safely stored fuel will run out
eventually, and they'll have to defend it against those people
that
consider "hoarding of fuel" to be a crime. How about kerosene
for oil lamps or propane for cooking? This stuff is not going to last
in a long term situation.
I guess that in a long term survival situation we'll simply revert
to the natural way of doing things, getting up when it's light, and
sleeping when it's not. We'll walk, or bike when we need to go somewhere,
and cook over wood fires, just like the rest of the Third World.
In the Revelation [of John] one of the angels is given the command "Don't
harm the wine or the oil." These will be extremely precious commodities
in times to come. Be blessed! - Chris
