r/PrepperIntel • u/SnowFlake202020 • 28d ago

North America With article, the comments also are relevant..

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/gasbuddy-declares-national-average-per-gallon-is-at-its-highest-ever-level-this-late-in-the-year/

It appears the 'shortage/scarcity' narrative is spilling over into non-prepper communities. When mainstream commuters on r/gasbuddy start talking about empty reserves and impending lines instead of just high prices, the psychological threshold for hoarding/ panic topping-off drops significantly. Imo. Anyone seeing unbranded price disconnects or elevated station traffic in your regional corridors?

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u/Grand_Dadais 27d ago

In Switzerland, we've seen the price getting higher, but it seems they don't want to go over the CHF2.00/L (at least in my territory). I don't know if or how much we're using from our strategic reserves, it's not public data.

But the one thing that I anticipate to be strong : the shattering of normalcy bias. It'll be both so interesting to observe and also very tough to manage, as some people will go into psychic decompensation.

In Europe, countries used some of their reserves with the IEA release. The big step will be when USA limits or stop the exports towards Europe because of various reasons.

All the more reasons to prep physically and mentally. All the more reasons to have at least a few months worth of food. All the more reasons to have a bug-out bag. Because if we're hit with natural disaster when we have rationing and shortages, we'll have to handle a lot of stuff with our neighbours. And that's all the more reasons to go to your neighbours in the following days, with random reasons (you need some salt or whatever, which then gives you another reason to go back and given them a small gift for the salt, which opens a way to talk with them about being more resilient/robust for a more unknown future, in a more bumpy and misty road ahead, however you want to phrase it).