The overwhelming majority of Americans are barely living paycheck to paycheck now in October of 2026 and the wars in Iran and the Ukraine are creating major disruptions in supplies of crude oil, diesel fuel, gasoline , jet fuels, heating oil , natural gas and fertilizers ! All of the major western countries including most of Europe, all of North America( esp. USA ), Japan , Australia, New Zealand were already experiencing major national and personal debts crisis before the wars started and these major disruptions in energy supplies could indeed be the Straw That Breaks The Camel’s Back ! In the USA our Oil Refineries are running at full capacity and ignoring the all important scheduled Fall maintenance schedules in an effort to just meet the enormous demand being placed on them …Resulting in the fact that many refineries are essentially an accident waiting to happen ! Any break down in these systems could put even more stress on an already fragile energy system being taxed to the maximum. Diesel fuel which is the lifeblood of our economy, providing the energy for our huge trucking industry, trains, ships and farm equipment is rising sharply in price throughout the country . Let us face it , without trucks delivering food and pretty much EVERYTHING you buy for your life or farmers unable to harvest food or to obtain the necessary fertilizers to grow their crops in the first place, things could look pretty bleak in the coming months.. To make things even worse the U.S, Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) managed by the USA Dept. of Energy was created in 1975 to protect the US Economy from major oil supply disruptions and since the Iran / USA Israeli war started on Feb. 28 , the Trump Administration has allowed our reserves to dwindle down to serious depletion levels rendering them almost useless! Any emergency like a hurricane or serious winter storm could put us in dire straits ! If anyone can remember back in1973 , the USA experienced a “mild ” man made energy oil crisis. It lasted for about a year but during that time there were huge price increases in gasoline and what was more serious, major disruptions in supply. Back then gasoline rationing was a fact of life . You could ONLY buy gasoline 3 times per week and on days determined by the numbers on your cars license plate..Often times gas stations were OUT OF GAS and at minimum there were huge lines of cars lined up to buy gas each day… It was not fun but economists say that THIS time the problem will be MANY TIMES more difficult..and ALL this is expected within the next couple of months going into the winter where heating oil /natural gas supplies will be also in very short supply..The trucking industry is already taking a major hit due to Diesel Price Increases for as recently as this past summer more than 88,000 small independent trucking companies went OUT OF BUSINESS in the USA …. and the diesel prices are predicted to go Much Higher….and our farmers are experiencing similar problems where diesel prices for their farming equipment and huge increases in the cost of fertilizers is causing bankruptcies or near bankruptcies amongst thousands of farmers !…..So what is YOUR BACK UP PLAN this fall / winter if Gasoline DOUBLES IN PRICE….or you’re Running On Empty and there is a line at your gas station a block long when you are on your way to work ? Or you can ONLY buy gas Tues. , Thurs. and Sat. and it is Monday ?… or ALL the gas stations in your town are OUT OF GAS ?…. and you have to get some groceries…. go to the pharmacy…. go to the doctor…. go to the hospital…. take your kid to school… and you are OUT OF GAS….No Problem ! Go back home and grab your E- Bike or E- Scooter or E -Motorcycle….You fully charged your Battery last night ….REMEMBER ??
