Reply #4: So, what do you do when the people with all the guns come to take what you have?

[elocs]

Ahh, if it were only so simple as growing and storing the 5 crops you need to survive. It's not. There's no going back to the romanticism of the good old agrarian days of 1900 when the U.S. population was a mere 76 million. Quaint garden plots will not feed our current population of 308 million and growing. Besides what will the millions in the inner cities do?

If life in this country collapses and falls apart to that extent it will be a preview of Hell. For those who like to immerse themselves in this sort of thing just visit http://peakoil.com/ (especially the message boards) and you will be orgasmic.