FOIL FRIDAY: The Green Recession Is Here & Shortages w. The Strange Truth

Welcome to episode 74 of The Strange Truth. I'm your host, Carl B. And, you know, I always say this on a Friday night, but what a week it has been. Whether you're just watching the regular mainstream news or... you know, you're following PBN, what a week it has been. If you're new to PBN, I want to say welcome, okay? If you're new, you know, if you're new to The Strange Truth, you know, if this is just something that you stumble across because you're looking... for programming or material that centers around prepping and Christianity, et cetera, et cetera, alternate news sources, then I just want to say welcome to The Strange Truth. Welcome to PBN. I would suggest that if you are in the market for really good prepping advice, you know, like, uh, if, if you've been, uh, pretty much red pilled and you, uh, have decided it's time for you to get yourself and your family ready for, uh, what we're going through right now. And most likely, uh, you know, the worst is still yet to come. And if you are seeing the writing on the wall, then I would suggest that you go over to PBN and you check out the resources there. You know, we have at PBN, there is just, you know, like. Any prepping topic, right, you know, that you could possibly be interested in is covered there in multiple, multiple ways, whether it be a podcast or an article, a written article or in video form or, you know, it's there. Plus, you have access to all the different hosts here on PBN that, you know, and these guys are always willing to help, always willing to share information. their knowledge with you and they're just fountains of information. So, uh, you know, um, there is, you know, there, there is always a point I think when, when, uh, you know, whomever is going to get it gets it. And I think, and there's always that critical level, you know, uh, in, in any, you know, in any fall, you know, when, when civilization, uh, you know, uh, goes belly up. Right. And there's, there's been a bunch of times when major world powers or a major, uh, you know, way of life has been like, you know, um, just completely like, um, uh, you know, crashed. Right. And, uh, and of course that births something else usually out of the ashes then comes, uh, you know, some other form of, uh, you know, um, government, you know, uh, was, structure, governance, right? But... You know, usually there's a few people who can see the writing on the wall and they go, okay, it's time for me to really do something and protect myself and my family. For some people that meant moving completely out of an area, you know, part of the country or, you know, like going to a completely different country to avoid certain things they see coming. or, you know, hardening up their lives so that they can most likely try, you know, they can withstand, they can withstand the troubled times. And I think if you're listening to my voice right now, then you are most likely already on board with that, you know, with that idea that it is time now that you harden up your life. and uh you you start doing things to protect yourself and your family and pbn is a great place to start so go over to pepperbirdcasting.com and check him out and become a member if you um you know it you know the hosts we don't really get we don't get anything uh from putting out these podcasts week in week out okay uh you know we're just we're just here uh giving you a very unique service, right? You know, you listen to these programs, and you get a lot of information. And, you know, how you use that information, that's completely up to you. We're not here to tell you what to do. We're just here to give you information. And then however you use that information, you know, in your own plans, then that's completely up to you. OK, you will get the straight the straight news here at PBN. Some of it you're going to agree with and some of it you're not going to agree with. But I think then I think that's healthy. I'm always worried when I'm agreeing with everything everybody is saying. That's when, you know, like the little red flags go up because that means something is most likely off. Right. You know, if some, you know, there there's a lot of times. you know, we have to face some really hard truths about ourselves, about our beliefs, about everything, right? And sometimes we have to step outside of our comfort zone and last healthy. But, you know, always be wary. If all you're listening to and you're hearing are just stuff that you agree with, then maybe you need to reevaluate your sources or just make sure that you're not, you know, building your own bubble, right? There's a lot of things, uh, you know, people on the conservative side, we, we say a lot of the, you know, this about the left, you know, people on the left and, and that they just create their own bubbles, right? And they live in those bubbles. And we have to be very, very careful that we don't do that as well. And we have to be welcoming to people who are now finding themselves, um, coming around to our way of thinking, the way how, you know, we have been seeing things and processing things, you know, we shouldn't wag our fingers and say, well, I told you so, because that's just going to drive them away and drive a wedge in between us and, of course, you know, any new people who would really, you know, benefit from, you know, listening to what we have to say and, you and possibly getting into, you know, the preparedness lifestyle, right? So we have to be welcoming, you know, we have to resist, we have to resist the temptation to wag our fingers in their faces and go, oh, we told you so. you know, what, a year and a half ago here in PBN, you know, we were talking about, you know, the food short, you know, the coming food shortages and when they actually arrived with the pictures of the shortages on the shelves, you know, we were like, okay, they're real, they're here, you know, start preparing, start preparing. And, you know, when we started talking about, you know, the potential fallout from the vaccines and different things, right? You know, we put the truth out there as best as we could about all the really important issues that affect the prepper community, you know, because food, energy, you know, the pandemic, you know, all those were really tough. And then, of course, the brewing wars that could escalate into a world war, right? And so all those, we had our hands, you know, in all those issues, trying to figure out where they were going to go, right? We were just trying to stay on top of the news in those issues. And there are other things as well, you know, but those were really top issues. And so far, I've got to say, We've gotten it mostly right here on PBN. I have listened to the other hosts. I mean, Aiden Tate had a really great show. It was last Saturday, and it was about how to procure food anonymously. And, you know, I mean, this is something that, you know, we've all been thinking about now, the more and more, you know, things are becoming more scarce in the stores, the more it seems like we're heading towards some kind of a food, you know, rationing issue here in the United States. And, you know, and there's been a lot of people, you know, I have friends who, you know, are, you know, they're, you know, they're, beginning to really take the food situation a lot more seriously. You know, they're trying to deepen their pantries, you know, and of course, you know, a lot more people are wondering how you can buy food, right, without leaving a paper trail because you don't want people coming after you if that's preventable or not. Yeah. Because, yeah, if there is a shortage, then most likely, you know, don't be surprised if they start going around and they start going into people's homes and, you know, taking their supplies. I think that there was a feeling that that could have been the issue when the pandemic first started. You know, when everything hit the fan in March, when was it, March 2019? right, when everything hit the fan in March, right, during the early parts of the pandemic, and once people cleaned out the stores, and once people cleaned out the N95 masks, right, then there was this whole thing about hoarders, right, and they were talking about, you know, people who are hoarding N95 masks, and you could just see where In the mainstream media, there was a movement afoot to demonize people who actually had extra stuff. Although that stuff was not acquired during the emergency, that stuff was acquired years prior in most cases because folks have been preparing. People in the preparedness community have been preparing for years in advance for because they're figuring when the bad time comes, at least they have, you know, something put aside. But there was that movement in the mainstream media to demonize a lot of, you know, the people who were preparing, and it got pretty ugly there for a while. You know, and at one point, you know, it almost, you know, before they started to get kind of a handle on on COVID, you know, because we were, you know, in the early parts, we didn't know how bad it was going to be. Everybody was very, very nervous about the whole thing. And it was an unknown thing at the time. You know, yeah, you know, there was a feeling that, yeah, you know, if this thing got bad enough and it shut down the factories and it, you know, the food processing plants and different things, then maybe they would go house to house. They would declare martial law and start going house to house and, um, taking people's food and, and, and medical supplies and such. Uh, so, um, you know, uh, that being said, uh, We're going to bookend this conversation here because we're going to talk a little bit about this towards the end of the conversation because I do believe that we have another rough patch coming here in about three months. I think it's going to take about three months for it all to really, what do they say, for the fruit to ripen. And and then, you know, it will all go start going bad after about three months. So the situation right now is in the ripening stage where, you know, the. The flower has been fertilized and now it's beginning to form the fruit. And the fruit is now on the vine, so to speak, and it's getting bigger. It's now in the early stages of development. It's becoming nice and green and it just needs to get a little bigger before the redness starts to come in. It starts to ripen. And I think, you know, that's a great metaphor for what's going on right now, uh, uh, throughout the world. And, and by the way, if you're listening, if you're listening to this, you know, uh, you know, in another part of the world, uh, you know, Canada, Australia, England, uh, you know, in Europe or Africa, New Zealand, wherever you might be in Asia, wherever you might be, um, You know, it's it's it's not this is not just a USA issue. It's a whole it's a worldwide issue. And usually what happens here in the US happens, you know, in terms of the economy and food and everything else is is echoed in other parts of the world. And a lot of times, you know, while we find a way here in the US to get by, A lot of times it's a whole lot worse in other parts of the world because they just don't have the resources as we do. So if you're listening, you know, in the UK, you should be prepared right now. If you're listening in Australia, you should be getting your pantries nice and deep right now. You know, if you're listening in Canada, the same thing because you have that guy Trudeau. And I don't know. I don't know why these folks around the world elect these people who, They are not looking out for their interests. I think that they voted these guys in because they figured they shared the same ideology. But the ideology isn't good for the regular guy or woman out there. Because it's all anti-life. It's this anti-life ideology wrapped up. as the green new deal, right? But it's really anti-life. And, uh, we'll, we're going to talk a lot about that, um, in this podcast. So I'm off and running already, right? And I, and I just want to throw in the sponsors here. Let's just give a shout out to the sponsors, uh, of the show. Um, the Preppers Medical Handbook, right? William W. Forgy, MD, uh, It's a sponsor, right? William W. Forgy, MD, he wrote The Prepper's Medical Handbook. Go on over to Amazon, get yourself a copy. It's a great medical resource to have, especially if the grid goes down and you're on your own. 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Either they're just plain stupid or they're seriously misguided, along with, all the other people in the world, I think that they were in such a hurry to distinguish themselves from Donald Trump because, of course, they made the man out to be, you know, like a complete pariah, right? They made him out to be like the Antichrist. They made him so bad that, of course, he had to be the anti-Trump. And, of course, you know, he had to then, everything that Trump did that actually helped stabilize and stimulate the economy to a certain extent, uh, when Mr. Biden came in, he basically just reversed all those policies, right? Um, you know, Trump wanted a Keystone pipeline built to make sure that we were energy independent. Mr. Biden, because of the green new deal, right? When he came in, he canceled that. Um, and, uh, you know, and of course, you know, uh, he has, he's basically told the oil industry that he wants to pretty much shut them down. Um, you know, he's handing out this really false carrot of, okay, transition over to producing energy that is more earth-friendly, you know, versus, you know, oil. But it's kind of a, it's a false premise. It won't work, you know, instead of, uh, coming in with a plan to gradually then wean us off, they just went full bore. I think that they saw the Donald Trump years as years lost and they were really trying to make up for it. And they really believe that we would somehow survive and, uh, you know, the, you know, the economy would somehow survive, you know, and, uh, and that's not happening. It's not happening because, uh, They're concerned about all the wrong issues right now. What the world needs right now are energy experts, not social justice experts. And that's the thing. We have an administration filled with social justice experts and not energy experts. They have no one who can competently run our transportation division, sector, Um, they have no one that can competently oversee the transit, the transition, right. From, uh, off, you know, all this, uh, fossil fuel to some more greener, uh, type of energy. Um, it's, it's very misguided and, uh, It's going to cost them the election. And I think it's going to deal a massive blow to the green movement. I think that all of this is going to backfire spectacularly on the climate change people. When you have people starving and freezing, they're not going to be loving your ideology. Only the really hardcore disciple... And Mr. Biden tried passing himself off as one of these hardcore disciples because in a statement that they're going to try to memory hole, he actually said sometime in May when the gas prices started to bite, he said, well, this is just a sacrifice in getting ourselves off fossil fuels and Americans will be okay with it, making this sacrifice. You know, by paying higher prices and everything else. It just goes to show you how delusional these folks really are. Okay? No mom or dad, you know, are going to want to starve their family for the Green New Deal. None. No one is going to want to give up, you know, their regular meals during a day or a week or a month. for the Green New Deal. People aren't that on board with it. And I think they're already facing the fallout of all these policies and, you know, all over the world, you know, our military, which is supposed to be the world's most fearsome killing machine, because that's what the military is there for. It's not there for social justice issues. It's there to figure out how to kill the enemy. That's what the military is there for. It's the best deterrent we have to people who want to do harm to Americans, right, is our military. And if our military, which is now becoming kind of a joke worldwide, if our enemies realize that we don't have the will, the leadership, you know, the fortitude, right, to carry through with our you know, with our, you know, with our word, you know, with our decisions, then, of course, they're going to take advantage of that. And you're seeing that all around the world now where enemies are just basically thumbing their noses because, you know, they realize that we're a big tiger with no teeth, you know, at this point, right? You know, we're supposed to be the You know, the big lion and the Roman, instead of that, you know, we are the big tiger with no teeth, you know, as the saying goes, right? So, I'm just going to read a few articles here, right, that will show and that will highlight why it's the energy thing. stupid, right? You know, like, years ago, somebody say it's the economy stupid, right? Here, I'm saying it's the energy is the energy problem now, right? This the energy problem that we're the whole wide world is having right now, is what's going to drive us into the next great recession. I think that they might call this one the green recession. Okay. I think that the greens need to own all of the pain and suffering to that's going to be coming because I get good intentions, you know, like I understand like, you know, like you want to make the world a better place for everybody. Right. But at the same time, it all has to be done responsibly, you know, responsibly. And it can't be shoved down people's throats, you know. So but let's take a look at some of some important articles here. The first article I will take a look at is from Natural News. And I've seen this article reprinted in different forms around the web. But I'll just read it here. This one was Sunday, June 19th. It was published and it says, Diesel prices rising rapidly. Farmers suffer as off-road diesel for farm use hovers above the $ 5 mark. And he says gas prices have been increasing in the United States, but diesel has been worse. And fears of a diesel shortage this year are causing concern because it's not just the retail prices that are rapidly rising. Reports of farmers booking off-road diesel for farm use have been trending above the $ 5 mark as well. This is an issue that is also being faced by the trucking industry from coast to coast, as the average diesel price now stands at $ 5. 77 per gallon. A year ago, it was only $ 3. 21 per gallon. Patrick D. Hahn, who heads up the petroleum analysis of a tech company, Gas Buddy, said it almost seems like the little live indicator in their data ticks up every five minutes. The company tracks both diesel and gas prices in real time, and while the pain at the pump is something that drivers see across the country, it is also an issue for agricultural producers across the U.S. Craig Moss, a farmer in in Hull, Iowa said we had some farm diesel delivered yesterday and it cost us $ 4. 85 or $ 4. 89 a gallon delivered two years ago we bought fuel for just over a dollar the rapid dollar a gallon wow that's just crazy This rapid rise in input prices is eating into outlooks, even when taking into account the already high livestock and grain prices. Pork producer David Newman from Myrtle, Missouri said, It's a challenging market, no doubt, buying $ 8 corn and $ 5. 50 diesel. It's a tremendous challenge for producers. A Pennsylvania farmer, Kyle Kotzmoyer, said that, He has a tractor hooked up to his corn planter, but with no diesel fuel because he couldn't afford any. The crushing reality is that record diesel fuel prices are pushing farmers like himself to the brink, and this could affect food availability. We have reached that point where it is very close to being a sinking ship. We are teetering on the edge right now, Kotzmoyer, who also serves as a legislative affairs specialist for the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, said in front of state lawmakers. Prices for both gas and diesel climbed again, as did the price for off-road diesel. A survey of farmers on Twitter also drew a wide range of responses about the prices that they were seeing, with some reporting off-road diesel at $ 4. 13 in the northern Corn Belt, but above $ 5 for those further east as well as western states like Montana. Research also shows that farmers are seeing nearly every input cost on their farm rise again. Nitrogen prices produced the highest increase at more than 133% per acre year over year. Phosphorus and potassium fertilizers were also up nearly 93% during the same time. Fuel and lube prices also jumped more than 86%. Baseline projections from the University of Missouri Food and Policy Research Institute also showed a sharp rise in fuel costs. A 57% increase may or may not capture what's happening right now throughout the whole calendar year of 2022, but it's capturing at least the part that we're seeing right now, Bob Motzberger, a senior research economist with the Institute said. Wow. While it may vary on the dollar per acre impact, about an equal increase on a percentage change basis could see those dollars per acre be more expensive in the current calendar year. Kotzmeier also made it clear that food may not be as readily available because of the fuel price surge. Farmers these days may not be able to put food on the ground or they can't get the food out because farms use diesel-operated machinery. Diesel is a huge, huge expense for farmers. A Cumberland County farmer, for instance, works on around 3,500 acres with several diesel-consuming tractors burning through about 2,000 gallons of diesel per month. Farm operations, however, don't have to pay sales tax on diesel fuel purchases. which gives them a minor break. However, this could also lead farmers to decide to stop farming certain crops that are not worth the expense, further raising the threat of shortages. Some farmers are already selling seed corn or beans back to dealers, opting for hay instead, which they say has more return on investment. And that's true. I've already seen a lot of the fields around here. Uh, there's a lot more hay in the fields around here by me as well, too. And, you know, not as much corn as they used to be. So I, I'm guessing that's what's going on. Uh, let's see. So that's, uh, one article, right? I'm going to read two more articles to you. Another article I'll read, uh, and this one is important, uh, This one was published on Zero Hedge in early June. And it says, Biden mandates more ethanol in gasoline. Expect many negative repercussions. Right. And you'll understand why I'm reading these articles to you here. Because, you know, they're important. It says, and I'll just skip down and read the part that's important. The Biden administration on Friday retroactively reduced the amount of ethanol that must be blended into gasoline for 2020 and 2021, but raised the level for 2022, saying the changes are aimed at helping boost domestic fuel supplies. The agency can adjust these requirements retroactively signaling to refiners how much they will have to spend to buy market credits that help them comply with obligations lingering from past years. Both ethanol and corn prices have risen sharply and cutting the 2022 mandate potentially could have lowered refiners' business costs and led to lower prices at the pump, but likely by only a few cents per gallon, said analysis. And it says here millions of acres are being pointlessly sacrificed just to grow corn to fuel gas-guzzling SUVs, said Brett Hartl, government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity. Meanwhile, the EPA looks the other way as our ocean dead zones grow, water pollution worsens, and endangered species suffer. Expanded ethanol production under federal mandates raised corn prices by 30% and the price of other crops by 20%, according to the report. You could see that the people who support the Green New Deal would rather us not support do anything at all, right? That's the first thing. They would rather us not do anything at all right now to try to bring the cost of gasoline down. I mean, you know, putting more ethanol in gasoline is the Biden administration's lame attempt to try to appease or try to find some solution to, you know, to bring the cost of gasoline down a little bit, right, while still not drilling for more oil. OK, two or three weeks ago. But the Biden administration basically threatened the oil industry. Right. So they threaten them. They're trying. They want these guys to produce more oil. Right. Without pretty much giving them any real help to do so. And not only that, you know, they're you know, they're actively telling them we're trying to destroy your business. So I wonder how much help they're really going to get from these oil companies, really, with this problem right now. I can't see these folks being really open to them in any way, right? All across Europe, because the Europeans got snowed into the Ukrainian war, right, and went overboard with their response to the Ukrainian war. They treated Mr. Putin like how they treated Donald Trump and It was the wrong strategy. You can't tell a country, right, which pretty much is what? Almost a whole continent, right? Most of Asia, because Russia is big, right? To go take a hike and take their resources with them. Especially since that whole world economy, it's all tied together. Russia provides a lot of basic commodities to Europe and around the world. And they basically said, okay, we're going to push you around. You're a superpower, but we're going to push you around. And it looked good, but it was the wrong strategy. It wasn't the wise strategy. And it didn't work. And now the Europeans, they're going to freeze. If you're listening to this in the UK, anywhere across Europe, prepare now, you know, get your, get your, if, if you have, if you have propane available, if you have alternate ways to heat your home, get this all together now, because, and even here in the United States, because it's going to be rough for the, especially for the folks in Europe, it's going to be really, really rough. They've got a, a, People are going to die off. You know, they're going to freeze to death. People who can't afford the energy are going to freeze to death. That's just the way it's going to work. OK, and that's why I say that the greed movement, they've got to own all of this. They can't put this on Mr. Putin. Because if they had come up with a level-headed strategy of dealing with the Russian incursion into Ukraine, then they wouldn't be in this mess to begin with. They can't they can't say, OK, we're not going to buy your gas or your petroleum and then say, OK, then we're going to blame you for the shortage. It's stupid. It's mind numbing. But that's the game that they're playing with the average the average citizen out there. Right. So they put this out and then the Biden administration is trying the same thing. Right. They're saying, well, you know, we're going to cut off our gas production here. And, you know, the higher prices are Mr. Putin's fault. Right. OK, you know, only they're only they're they're crazy, you know, fanatical, you know, extremists on the on the left really like will buy that at that point. The average American have seen through it. And and that's why they're scrambling right now, because they realize that the average American is seen through for the most part the ploy. Right. They've seen through it. Most people have seen through it. So they can't blame Mr. Putin for the food shortage, which was happening before Putin went into Ukraine. They can't because that's all, you know, Buttigieg's fault, right? You know, transportation, you know, the guy, they put this guy to run the transportation sector of the United States, the biggest economy on the planet. And this guy had no experience whatsoever in that industry at all. So, you know, they're just rewarding people. It's all nepotism. So, oh, you supported me. So guess what? I'll give you a job that you're not qualified in a million years to do. But here you go. Now run the transportation industry. Okay. And he has no clue as to what he's doing. So we're going to see a lot more shortages across the board. Be prepared for it, folks. Be prepared. OK, so so they're going to be putting a lot more ethanol in gasoline. OK, and that means that the corn that should be going towards food products aren't isn't going to be going towards food products. Long story short, that's what that means, which means that there is that there's going to be a lot less product. on our shelves that, you know, of course that use corn, you know, if corn is an ingredient, then that product in a few months might not be there for you to get. Okay. So let me just read a few things here. The first thing I'm going to read to you is petroleum products and its uses, because a lot of people don't realize just what petroleum is used for. So I'll just read a little bit of this too. It says here, Petroleum crude oil is a naturally occurring liquid, and this is coming from vidantu.com, right? It's a naturally occurring liquid that is refined to prepare products like gasoline, i.e. petrol, diesel fuel, jet fuel, home heating oil, lubricating oil, wax, asphalt, and many other useful products, right? And it says, let's see. What is it used for? Transportation. To date, petroleum is the basic source of energy used in transportation. Petroleum accounts for two-thirds of the total transportation fuel globally. Gasoline. Now, this is what they're trying to wean us off. It accounts for two-thirds of the total transportation fuel globally. That is just massive. If you want to know how bad this is going to get, with the shortage going on right now in Europe and across the United States and across the world, and petroleum is used for two-thirds of that energy, I think that we've underestimated just how badly this is going to be, especially in the wintertime. It says here, Gasoline, petrol, diesel, liquefied petroleum gas, LPG, jet fuel, and marine fuel are the major transportation fuels obtained from petroleum. Cars, motorcycles, light trucks, buses, trains, boats, and ships use gasoline or diesel. Jet airplanes and some types of helicopters often use kerosene. Power, right? Generation. A thermal power plant uses petroleum... for electricity generation. Although coal is a major source of electricity generation, petroleum also accounts for significant power generation that eventually results in serious environmental pollution. Apart from these two uses of petroleum, the fuel has other industrial applications too. These are lubricants. Almost all industries use lubricants for the proper functioning of machinery. Lubricants reduce friction in vehicles and industrial machines. However, they're even used in cooking, bioapplications on humans, ultrasound and medical examinations, pharmaceuticals. This is all the stuff that petroleum is used for, right? All the different industries. And, you know, it says pharmaceuticals. Certain byproducts like mineral oil and petrolatum are used in the manufacture of topical medicines. The complex organic molecules used in pharmaceuticals are linked to simple organic molecules of petroleum byproducts. Agriculture. It's used in agriculture, right? Ammonia, which is a source of nitrogen in agricultural fertilizers, is manufactured from petroleum using Haber's process. Moreover, a lot of pesticides are produced from petroleum. Machinery for plowing, etc. also works on petroleum. In the chemical industry, the raw materials of many chemical properties are byproducts of a petroleum refinery. Chemical fertilizers, synthetic fibers, insecticides, synthetic rubber, nylon, plastics, pesticides, perfume, dyes, paints, etc. Are the significant products produced using the major byproducts like naphthia, grease, petroleum jelly, wax, and butadiene, etc. Domestic uses, right? household products like detergents, Vaseline, wax, etc., are byproducts derived from petroleum. Kerosene is used in many countries for cooking, lighting, and other domestic purposes. And these are just some of the uses of petroleum. And this is what they're trying to wean the world off without any real replacements. It doesn't make any sense. It is insane when you really think about it. The whole thing is insane, right? Now, I'm going to look at the uses of corn, right? 13 ways corn is used and why corn is important. Okay, 13 ways corn is used in our everyday lives. And this is from Farm Progress. Right, let's see. Corn is most often thought of as a food, right? And this is written by Janet Fowler, right? This was written in 2012 from Farm Progress, right? But it's a great article about how corn is used. So we looked at how petroleum is used. We're now looking at how corn is used. Corn is most often thought of as a food. Perhaps if you are an avid cook, you might even think of cornstarch or corn-based food additives. Or perhaps those who follow the oil and gas news might think of ethanol. However, recent years have seen this dinner staple uses expand greatly. In fact, the bulk of corn that's produced today does not go to food production. You're probably using corn in ways you don't even realize as you go about your daily business. The countless uses of corn have prompted some interest in corn as an investable asset. How corn is used in plastic. Plastics aren't entirely made up of synthetic substances. In fact, corn-based plastics have become very popular in recent years as companies strive to find methods of reducing the environmental impact of plastics. Corn-based plastics use plastics up to 60% less fossil fuels in production than traditional plastics and are estimated to emit 55% less greenhouse gases. Additionally, many of these plastics are also biodegradable. You will find corn plastics used in food containers and plastic food packaging, disposable dishware and gift cards. Yes, corn is in your batteries. Ethanol isn't the only form of energy derived from corn. Some batteries also contain corn derivatives found in the form of bioelectricity. In batteries, cornstarch is often used as an electrical conductor. It even makes you smell better. Cornstarch is a common ingredient in many cosmetic and hygiene items including deodorants. Many natural or homemade deodorants include cornstarch. as an ingredient because of its absorbent nature. However, many gel deodorants also contain a corn derivative in the form of denatured alcohol known as ethanol. Similarly, hand sanitizer also typically contains ethanol. or eases the common cold. Corn syrup is one of the main ingredients in cough drops. It provides the sweetness that is found in most cough drops and also helps provide the shape and candy-like texture of corn drops. Corn syrup is used in this capacity because traditional sugars often form crystals or dust-like particles while blending. Luckily, corn syrup doesn't share this undesirable trait in the manufacturing process. Where would babies be without corn? You can thank the absorbent nature of cornstarch for its assistance in the production of diapers. Though the absorbent layer found in modern-day diapers is typically made with acrylic acid, which is a component of Ethanol, another derivative of corn, you'll also find traditional cornstarch used in diaper production. Baby powder, an item which is often used along with diapers, also typically contains cornstarch thanks to its absorbent nature. Corn helps matches burn bright. Corn and more specifically cornstarch is a common ingredient used in the production of matchsticks. Additionally, matchsticks that are formed on paper or cardstock may include corn products in the paper itself to increase rigidity. Additionally, you can also purchase pellet stoves that burn corn-based pellets to heat your home and a vast list of corn uses. Many medications and vitamins contain corn products, particularly cornstarch. The starch is often used as a binder within the tablet's coating and helps drugs to hold their form. Additionally, cornstarch is used as an agent that helps the tablets to disintegrate after they're ingested. Cornstarch is an appealing ingredient for these uses because it is a safe natural product that is generally quite easily digested by humans. Corn beneath our feet, carpets, and other textile products now make wide use of corn in their production. This is often found in petroleum-based textile production, but can also be found in coloring or dyes. Corn-based products are often preferable to petroleum-based products in textile production because they are typically better for the environment. Vitamin C. Corn. The vast majority of commercially distributed vitamin C is derived from corn. Hmm, I didn't know that. Corn is rich with vitamin C. Half a cup of corn contains roughly 33% of your suggested daily intake of vitamin C. which makes it an appealing source for adding vitamin C to enrich various products or in the production of vitamin C tablets. Corn for crayons, right? You say crayons, right? Paper labels to adhere to crayons and all that. Yogurt and corn, right? Flavored yogurt lying on the grocery shelves anytime soon. You may be surprised to learn that corn is an ingredient in many types of yogurt. you may, you might find corn syrup used as a sweetener in yogurt and cornstarch is often used to help get the right consistency in both yogurt and ice cream. Right. Um, and you know, let's see, glue and other adhesives commonly contain cornmeal or cornstarch. The adhesives used on envelopes include cornstarch, right? Um, Additionally, corn germ, leftover substance after the oil has been removed from corn, is used to increase the adhesive qualities of industrial glue. The use of corn germ allows many of these high-intensity glues to be less expensive as corn germ replaces some of the resin that is typically used in fabrication. All right. Candies, you know, of course, gummy candies. Right. And all that. Right. Toothpaste, dish detergent, paper, clothing dyes, explosives, soaps. That there's a vast list of products that contain corn products. In fact, it is estimated that one quarter of items found in a grocery store contain corn in some form. OK. And I'll read that again. Right. it is estimated that one quarter of items found in a grocery store contains corn in some form. So if you're going to use up a lot of the corn to, you know, to, you know, in gasoline, right, then there's going to be a lot of that corn isn't going towards a lot of the products that normally, you know, would need it, right, you know, as part of its makeup. So it still is going to cause a shortage. We just can't grow enough corn to cover all the bases. We just can't. But because they're so desperate to try to bring the price of gasoline down without actually drilling for more gasoline. And their plan is to basically burn up and use up the world's reserve of gasoline because that's the obvious little plan. Right. Right. Then we're going to burn through our corn. So what's that going to lead to? That's going to lead to a loss of a lot of these products or a shortage of a lot of these products that use corn as an ingredient. And it's also going to affect, you know, the livestock industry that uses corn, right, in its feed and different things. So there's going to be, you know, of course, that's going to also lead to a escalation in food prices, right? Because if the ingredient becomes more, if it becomes more scarce, right, harder to find and more expensive, then of course that's going to get passed on to the consumer. So, It's the snake eating its tail is the way to look at this. So I gave you a list of how petroleum is used, like the different products petroleum is used. What is its uses, right? And then I also gave you the list of many uses of corn. So the many uses of petroleum, many uses of corn. And a world without these items or a world now that is, experiencing a shortage of these items, it's going to get pretty rough, folks. Okay? You know, when people talk about, oh, you know, a gasoline shortage and diesel shortage and everything else, I don't think that they properly appreciate just where all of this is going. All if we're having shortages now, they're going to get worse because there's a lot less of these two products. There's going to be a lot less of them. Right. You know, to provide the necessary ingredients for the different things. Right. So if you can't buy the diesel to farm, then food prices are going to suffer. If you can't buy the diesel to to transport the goods across the country or the goods across Europe or wherever, you know, you are in the world, Africa, wherever you are in the world, there's going to be a shortage. Okay? And the folks that are running the major governments across the world, all they care about is looking good for the cameras, saying that they're punishing Putin when they're really not. Right? They're just punishing their own countries. They're just punishing their own citizens. Okay? Okay? And they're pushing this green agenda, right, which they're saying is going to save the world. But in reality, it's going to end up killing a lot of people. And that's what I meant that I was going to bookend the conversation here because we're coming to the end of it now. But I just want to drive this point home. I think that we're going to see this fruit, this green energy coming. Recession, you know, the massive shortage that's coming. We're going to see this manifest itself properly in the world around September. So buckle up. I think September going into October, things are going to get grim and they're going to get more desperate. Europe has got to have an answer to keep their folks warm during the wintertime. And fed during the wintertime. I don't think they've got it. I don't think that we have it over here in the United States either or in Canada. So buckle up. Make sure that you have ample food set by. Make sure that you have a water plan, you know, if you need to. Make sure that you have an energy plan, like if you lose energy, right? And hence the danger, because Mr. Biden also said he wanted, they were going to give a stipend to households here in the United States soon to get off, you know, the oil-based furnaces to heat their homes. They want more people to buy these electric pumps, right? heat pumps for their home, just like in Europe, right? Can you imagine if something, there was a hack and half the country lost power during the wintertime and everyone is dependent upon these heat pumps as most people, most people will not have an alternate way of heating their homes. How vulnerable that the population is, that would be driving me nuts. I've got more than one way to heat my home, so I'm not worried about it. As a matter of fact, I'm going to be shoring that up even more so to, you know, later on in the year. But it's just amazing to me that so many people would just so blindly, you know, hopefully they won't just blindly go along with this plan because, you know, it's a recipe for disaster. So, Shortage in food and a shortage in electricity, we have that now. This situation is going to get way worse, I would say. Expect it to get, you know, two, three times worse, you know, September going into October. Okay? I expect at that point we're going to be seeing average of maybe $ 6 or $ 7 a gallon gas here in the United States. Okay? The green... The green movement, they've got to own this. We can't allow them to say this was Putin's fault or to get away with it saying that this was the petroleum industry's fault when it was their planning, their short-sightedness that's going to starve and kill a lot of people here in the future. A lot of people are going to starve because they will not be able to afford the food and And a lot of people are going to freeze because, you know what, they will not be able to afford the energy required to heat their home and keep themselves warm. And the green movement have got to own that. OK, you know, if they're going to say, well, people have got to make sacrifices and if they want to play around with people's lives, then they've got to they've got to be able to take the responsibility for that. They've got to own it. So make your plans, folks. This is where I'm going to end it. I have a lot more to cover, but you know what? I just because, you know, this this this thing is big. It's broad. It's diabolical. Right. And but, you know, just from those lists of what petroleum is used for, what corn is used for. And the different byproducts and. And any shortage of that product, just the domino, the rippling effect that it's going to have throughout, it's going to reverberate through every single industry. And it's going to bring in a lot of pain and suffering. It's the energy, stupid. It's the energy, right? It's the corn. It's the oil. It's the energy. It's the lack of the energy. And Most countries around the world, they're just caught like deer in the headlights. They have no real solution to the problem that they created. Mr. Putin could have gone into the Ukraine and the Europeans could have dealt with this in a much different way where they still have their oil and they still have their gas. And you know what? And they could have taken their time, their proper time to get themselves off. than Russian gas properly. They could have done it, but they opted to with this suicidal thing and their citizens are going to pay for it. There's going to be looting. There's going to be rioting across Europe. Across Europe. There's going to be looting. There's going to be rioting here in the United States as well. So be prepared for it. So the news and the views you will never hear in the mainstream media, right? It's right here. Right here on PBN. Okay. So just get yourself prepared, folks. All right. We have, I think we have a rough, we have a rough, you know, six months, six, seven months ahead. So be prepared. I think that, you know, we still have a two-month window, right? We're in June, July, August, you know, and then September when it starts getting cold again is when we're going to see We're going to see a lot of the problems come home to roost, right? And we have to make sure that we're able to deal with these issues. We're in an SHTF situation right now. It's here. Make your plans accordingly. Okay? Make your plans accordingly. So keep listening to PBN. We're going to have some great shows this weekend. Man, did you listen to us this week, right? They're great, great, great programs, right? You can always scroll back through the Spreaker player on the PBN website and check them out. And I also want to put in a plug for my book. You know, the Pepper Pot one, The Collapse by Carl A.D. Brown is available online. over at Amazon, right? And it's about a family living through an economic collapse. I wrote that book in 2013. And almost a decade later, you know, what that family went through, fictionally in the book, right? What they went through is pretty much what we're going through now. You know, sad to say it. But if you want, you know, to look, get a look at what the world might look like in an economic collapse, you know, go on over to Amazon and get the book, The Prepper Part One, The Collapse by Carl A.D. Brown. It's available over there. And, you know, and you get a look at a pretty frightening world, right? You know, one that, you know, we are experiencing right now. We are heading for a massive recession today. We're heading for a worldwide economic collapse. I think it's pretty much nailed on right now. And I don't think even the midterm elections that's coming up in November is not going to be able to change the trajectory of that path right now. So that's all I got. So tomorrow, make sure that you listen to The Last American. That's on Saturday. And make sure that you check out Chin Gibson and Sarah Hathaway on, you know, the Changing Earth podcast. That's on Sunday. And Reliance is also on Sunday with Stephen Menking, you know, which is a short sermon. So, you know, if you want to start the week with a short, insightful sermon, then, you know, join us on Sunday for that. And, you know, until next time, folks. Okay? Until next time. Good night. Thank you. Thank you.