Edwin Black is an award-winning New York Times bestselling American author and journalist specializing in corporate and historical investigations.
He has published sixty editions in fourteen languages in sixty-one countries.
He has also written numerous newspaper and magazine articles, published throughout the United States, Europe and Israel.
The author has been featured in or the subject of numerous documentaries.
The Plan
Black’s sixth nonfiction book was The Plan published in 2008, and his second on the topic of energy independence and oil addiction.
The Plan however does not discuss energy independence as much as a fuel crisis looming in the event of a sudden oil interruption.
Black states that the U.S. consumes about 20 million barrels of oil per day, some 70 percent imported, and if only 2 million were interrupted for a protracted period of a month or more, the nation would be thrown into economic chaos.
The Plan, rich in footnoted studies and news reports, explains that severe weather such as hurricanes and pinprick terrorism at pipelines could not cause such a disruption, but that a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz could.
Black then outlines the step-by-step day-by-day austere rationing, vehicle retrofitting and fuel switching needed to survive such disruption, based on the policies and precedents of International Energy Agency and our own history.
The point of the book is that while some 28 other oil consuming nations have adopted emergency measures, American policymakers have not even discussed a contingency plan.
Looks like Mr. Edwin Black is very concerned about the future of America and the world yet the people who ask questions are really really begging for a military options against IRAN!~
Iran is not the enemy, it’s the huge dependence of oil …..and most of the oil comes from countries with unstable political situation such as Russia, Iran, Nigeria, Africa, Venezuela and more!
Straits of Hormuz is just one of my fear that I write on my blog and this will cause an immediate ENERGY CRISIS if this narrow shipping strait is blocked….
Things the IRAN or the people of IRAN can possibly do
- Fly a plane into Straits Of Hormuz targeting oil super tanker (takes weeks or months to clear the wreckage)
- Target any super tankers with short to long distance conventional missile.
- Divers to set countless water mines floating all over the narrow straits
- Small flexible suicide speed boats with huge explosive on the suicide mission on all tankers (Remote control works too)
- Artillery any passing ships
- LNG & Oil is highly combustible hence a small RPG or rocket Propel Grenade CAN blow these super tankers out.
- Snipe at shorter range along the side of the Straits (not sure if it may destroy the tankers)
- Grenade Launchers
- Attack Helicopters
- Release chemical/biological/nuclear materials all over the area.
Of course for the United States and “allies” to work against IRAN may be more and more difficult as IRAN, Russia and others control much of the fossil fuels.
Clear display of power comes when Russian switched off natural gas to Ukraine & EU nations currently still under negotiation on the 2nd days.
Israel attacking on Gaza also brings the possible crisis forward tremendously and without proper preparation for disruption…it’s as good as being walking dead….yes ZOMBIES.
Imagine millions of truckers in India started to strike now and they don’t deliever food, products and necessities to the stalls & supermarkets will means a clean sweep zero food in 2 weeks!!
Those who had not previously prepared for this will find themselves shitting in their pants…before you know you the government will ration OIL, WATER, ELECTRICITY, FOOD and chaos will erupt all over the country especially the city area.
Do you mention zombies? Yes, human will eat humans in the city area as human meat is as good the next chicken meat on the shelf….or the empty shelf.
Do you want your neighbors to shoot you and cook you for dinner? DO YOUR MIGRATION to alternative FUEL now!
Do WHATEVER IT TAKES…to remove yourself from OIL.
Recycle, Reuse, Reduce, Innovate, Farm, migrate…whatever.
The most dangerous place might be safe but that depends on your skills, knowledge for survival and determination.
Mass economic refugees had already started to spread across the globes from China, India, Germany, Iceland, Japan, Ukraine and most possibly USA to move out of their own country and try to survive overseas.
The 2nd wave of refugees wanted to avoid conflicts like civil war & global energy war and that will be streaming lines of urban beggers and many will beg for water & food from farm lands that are not suitable for harvest.
What will a farmer do facing a hoard of hungry, weak, zero skills on farming bunch of urban folks?
The farmer will either protect his property and shoot all trespassers or recruit them as slaves but when the farm get crowded…they will be his “protection” defense private army.
If the crowd got one IDIOT FOOLS either gone crazy or what…killed the farmer…the whole hoard will DIE trying to farm themselves without knowledge or skills.
They might kill each other for human meat until the numbers grow smaller in smaller groups and it will end….with starvation…diseases ridden and slowly die off due to lacking of basic jungle survival skills.
If YOU had move on with alternative energy source for all the truckers in the world, alternative source for all ELECTRICITY production, move off all dependence on fossil fuels….this apocalyptic scenario WILL NEVER HAPPEN.
Self Sufficient Towns, Cities and villages is the answers, not plundering or looting….move towards sustainability development and GROW YOUR OWN FOOD, power your own home and be PRODUCTIVE to the community.
Money won’t be that valuable in the future as no money can buy you food/water/electricity or peace in the chaotic world of shortages.
Move on to alternative fuel now and RESEARCH on sustainability and ACT ON IT.
Nobody is going to save you if you cannot save yourself.
This blog is specifically trying to WARN you and the public to take actions and be prepared.
