Once upon a while ago I decided to stop my blogs. I was not out of material, but I concluded no one was listening. Well, not no one, but I only had only a couple of hundred readers after a decade plus of writing. Then the old saying, “I told you so” arrived. Therefore, I write one more blog just to say, I told you so’.

I guess you are wondering what I am talking about. I have talked about most of what is happening now. I talked about it years ago and what I wrote came to be, in www.tega227.com and www.faithingodministries.com,  yet I still see many that still do not see it or believe it.  They do not see what is coming and it will change everyone’s life forever.

What am I talking about? One bad action always leads to many bad consequences, like a domino effect. I’ll describe one here: the war with Iran, in my opinion, was a very bad decision. Now that oil shipments have been choked off will mean high prices for the little oil that can be acquired elsewhere. Our own oil reserves cannot last for a long wait for the strait to reopen. There is no indication that it will reopen anytime soon and only one fifth, or so, of the oil we use comes through the strait. That leads to other problems.

Oil needs to be refined into fuel that is needed for homes, other buildings, cars, trucks, ships, planes, and much more. I remember, when I was in the military and stationed in Europe in the ’70’s, there were certain days we could drive and alternate days to get gasoline. It could happen again. Traveling will cost more because fuel will cost more. The cost of transporting that fuel to get to where it is needed will cost more. Extracting oil from our own oil fields will cost more. Refining the oil will cost more. And on, and on, and on.

Look at the food we eat. Exotic food (food that is not normally grown in the USA) will become almost nonexistent. Why? Transportation cost to get it here coupled with transportation cost to get it to the stores where the people must drive to get it. All of it is oil. Some people are happy because they are all electric (car, home, and more), but don’t forget the generators that provide electricity run on some type of oil-based material.

Then there is the feeling that when things get tough Taxis, bus, ride share, etc. can be used. Gasoline is the primary fuel for vehicles therefore, to offset fuel costs, fares will be higher. I know about ride share because I provide that on a part-time basis. I should say used to provide it because I have decided to stop because of the fuel costs that I absorb from my pocket. I get paid from the pickup to the destination. Travelling to the pickup and all other incidentals come from my pocket.

NATO have been asked to help secure the strait that Iran has closed. They have said ‘no’. It was the GOP administration that wanted to pull out of NATO. The administration has asked the European nations to help. They have said ‘no’. The GOP administration pushed away our European allies but now have asked for help. The administration has said more than once that we do not need anyone, and we can do anything alone. Now we are alone, except for Isreal, and have the nerve to ask for help. All because of ego and oil, plus miscalculations.

People that do not know how to survive on basic items and to get by with easily gotten daily items, as in the old days, will have a very hard time and will be the ones that cry loudest.  I am not worried because I am a senior and know how to get by on hardly anything. This oil crisis doesn’t have me worried at all. Been there, done that. I grew up knowing nothing about oil or its byproducts. I walked everywhere I had to go and had meals made from the most basic things on a wood and coal stove.

In closing I want to say, good luck’, to those that voted GOP, on getting the strait open for oil tankers coming through any time soon. Iran has the upper hand, and things are not looking good for us. We are in a quagmire and there is no way out any time soon.