On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 07:22:37 +0100, Dave N wrote:

I don't expect that I am the only to be disturbed by this rant of yours.

Good, wake up and smell the coffee, yes it was a bit of a rant but
quite possibly not far from the truth. Modern society is balanced on
a razor sharp knife edge. Just look what happened the other week when
there was a merest hint of, note *hint* not that there "will be", a
fuel supply problem.

I guess most people don't realise that the supermarket shelves will
have significant empty spaces within 24 hours if the deliveries don't
arrive for what ever reason. Be that lack of fuel or lack of goods to
deliver. Once people start being restricted on what they can buy
either due to availability or restriction (1 loaf, 2 pints of milk,
indelible stamp to back of hand at checkout to stop people going
round again or simply not allowed into the store and have to queue to
get their allocated "ration"). It has the potential to get very
nasty, very quickly. Probably only last about month after that most
people will have starved to death or been killed by marauding gangs
taking what ever they can get by force.

There have been food riots, that is the populace rising up due to
lack of or cost of food, in many parts of the world recently. The
western media tend not to cover that sort of story for some reason...

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Cheers
Dave.