34 - The Collapse

Today I'd like to talk about the coming collapse. The collapse is not going to happen because of some breakdown in order due to the banking system or politics. It will happen because the cheap and easy energy that we use in our economy will become scarce. I've been studying Peak Oil since 2004. I've also lived in two countries as a teenager that had lost much of the their oil supply. After the Soviet Union collapsedI visited Cuba for an entire month with my family. Cuba had lost about 15% of it's oil imports because they were cut off from Soviet oil imports after the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. People were thin as toothpicks and food was expensive and scarce unless you were a tourist from another country. I remember my father having his life threatened by a local Cuban man for a pair of pants. The situation had become so dire that locals were resorting to the threat of violence. In 1996 I also I spent the entire summer in former Yugoslavia where 55% of the gasoline that would normally enter the country was gone due to international embargoes. I watched as gasoline gangsters sold bootleg petrol on street corners and I visited the Danube river where I saw petroleum pirates smuggle fuel across the riverSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/mgtow/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy