Now We Are Being Told to Expect Food and Diesel Shortages for the Foreseeable Future

If you think that the food and diesel shortages are bad now, then you will be absolutely horrified by what the globe is experiencing by the end of the year. All over the planet, food production is being crippled by an unprecedented confluence of factors. The war in Ukraine, extremely bizarre weather patterns, nightmarish plagues and a historic fertilizer crisis have combined to create a “perfect storm” that isn’t going away any time soon. As a result, the food that won’t be grown in 2022 will become an extremely severe global problem by the end of this calendar year. Global wheat prices have already risen by more than 40 percent since the start of 2022, but this is just the beginning. Meanwhile, we are facing unthinkable diesel fuel shortages in the United States this summer, and as you will see below there are “no plans” to increase refining capacity in this country for the foreseeable future.

If you had told me six months ago that we would be dealing with the worst baby formula shortage in U.S. history in the middle of 2022, I am not sure that I would have believed you.

But that is precisely what we are now facing. One young couple in Florida searched stores in their area for four hours and couldn’t find anything…

When Erik and Kelly Schmidt, both 35, went into a Central Florida Target store this week to buy their usual baby formula, Up & Up Gentle, for their five-month-old twins, they found an empty shelf.

The pair then embarked on a half-day journey in search of formula, any formula, and their quest didn’t end there. “We spent over four hours going to every Target, different Walmarts, different grocery stores, just finding absolutely nothing,” Erik Schmidt said.

Of course the Biden administration has made sure that there is enough baby formula for migrants that are illegally crossing the border, but for millions of ordinary American families this crisis has become a complete and utter nightmare.

By NC ScoutPublished On: May 16, 2022Categories: Uncategorized8 Comments

About the Author: NC Scout

NC Scout is the nom de guerre of a former Infantry Scout and Sergeant in one of the Army’s best Reconnaissance Units. He has combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He teaches a series of courses focusing on small unit skills rarely if ever taught anywhere else in the prepping and survival field, including his RTO Course which focuses on small unit communications. In his free time he is an avid hunter, bushcrafter, writer, long range shooter, prepper, amateur radio operator and Libertarian activist. He can be contacted at [email protected] or via his blog at brushbeater.wordpress.com .

8 Comments

John L May 16, 2022 at 07:53

Communism=Globalism=Fascism=Democrats= Shortages/Suffering/Dead Bodies.
Verne May 16, 2022 at 08:58

There were rumblings of a infant formula shortage over six months ago. This dumpster fire the FDA and brandon have created only made matters go critical.
James Carpenter aka "Felix" May 16, 2022 at 09:52

Hanlon’s razor is an adage or rule of thumb that states “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
And if we can’t “vote our way out of this”….
Kevin May 16, 2022 at 12:59

What do you need baby formula for? What happened to boobs?
- NC Scout May 16, 2022 at 13:02
  
  I could go into exactly how stupid this comment is…but I don’t need to.
  - wwes May 16, 2022 at 13:06
    
    I hope he doesn’t start trying to raise any kind of livestock with that attitude either. His profits would evaporate the first few times he had a bottle calf, kid, or lamb.
- Hawkeye May 16, 2022 at 14:19
  
  I don’t know…. maybe when a baby is lactose intolerant and can’t have breast milk and instead needs formula? Maybe when something happens and the mother can’t produce enough milk for some reason? Or maybe….. nah, nevermind. NC Scout was right.
- FoolsErrand May 16, 2022 at 19:59
  
  Missing one of the greater points here for a few cheap yuks, are we? Wait til you see what desperate people do when they are trying to feed their hungry children, especially infants. You haven’t seen anything yet…