“Demand destruction”

 A new term for an old way to control the masses: instead of allowing a free market to provide goods and services people want and need, government can regulate a commodity so severely that it becomes too expensive for consumers to purchase.  

This form of social engineering is practiced by a number of ideologically-driven groups - Climate Change activists and Degrowthers chief among them.  If they can limit supplies of fossil fuels, they congratulate themselves for saving the Earth regardless of the negative impacts on humans. 

Diehard activists rarely consider the unintended consequences of their ideas, and if they do their end goal justifies any means necessary. For many of these folks, the idea of mass starvation, increased poverty or societal upheaval is an acceptable price to pay for the damage humans have caused to the planet.  People be damned! The Earth will be better off with fewer humans.  

Be prepared for the rise of the Climate Warriors. There is an entire generation of indoctrinated Millennials and more in the pipeline who can’t possibly know what destruction and misery looks like, or in what ways human nature will ultimately prevail over their Utopian fantasies.  

 The rising price of fossil fuels is a political decision.  It is purposeful and it is cruel.

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Natural-Gas Sticker Shock Is Coming to Your Dinner Table and Commute

Expensive natural gas is having all sorts of cascading effects, some of which may only show up next year 

Wall Street Journal  By Jinjoo Lee, 10/25/21 (Excerpts)

High nat­ural-gas prices to­day mean your elec-tric­ity and heat­ing bills will likely be ex­pen­sive this win­ter. Next year, it could mean you will end up pay­ing more to eat and to fill up your car.  

In Eu­rope, where nat­ural gas is al­most six times as ex­pen­sive as it was a year ear­lier, fer­til­izer com­pa­nies—in­clud­ing Nor­we­gian com­pany Yara, as well as BASF and Bo­re­alis—have an­nounced cur­tail-ments as a re­sult of ex­pen­sive gas. Fer­til-izer pro­duc­tion in the re­gion has dropped as much as 40% as a re­sult of tight sup­plies, ac­cord-ing to CME Group. Nat­ural gas can ac­count for up to 85% of the pro­duc­tion cost of am­mo­nia, a key in­gre­di-ent for many fer­til­iz­ers, ac­cord­ing to es­ti­mates from the U.S. De­part-ment of Agri­cul­ture.

The ef­fect on food might not end there. High nat­ural-gas prices al­ready have made ni­tro­gen-based fer­til­iz-ers more ex­pen­sive, with both am­mo­nia and urea prices in the U.S. roughly tripling com-pared with a year ear-lier, ac­cord­ing to data from ICIS.

Adding to the rally, China, one of the world’s largest fer­til-izer ex­porters, is said to be im­pos­ing curbs on ship­ments, ac­cord­ing to a re­port re­leased last Tues­day on Bloomberg.

High fer­til­izer prices would have rip­ple ef­fects. Any­thing that makes corn ex­pen­sive could show up in the prices of pantry sta­ples such as ce­real and cook­ing oil, not to men­tion meat be­cause corn is the main in­gre­di-ent in live­stock feed.

More­over, it could in­crease prices at the pump if it raises ethanol prices; most gaso­line sold in the U.S. to­day con­tains some ethanol as a re­sult of Re­new­able Fuel Stan-dard reg­u­la­tions. In Eu­rope, fur­ther cur­tail-ments of fer­til­izer plants would also im-pact the sup­plies of an ex­haust fluid known as Ad­Blue that is used to help neu­tral­ize diesel emis­sions.

In­dus­trial de­mand for nat­ural gas seems dis­pos­able un­til it starts af­fect­ing food sup­plies. It is also a re­minder of just how in­ex­tri­ca­bly the world’s in­dus­tries—even those that help curb emis-sions—are still tied to fos­sil fu­els.

This win­ter’s big chill could be felt far, long and wide.

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Man-made famines have ravaged our world for centuries - unnecessary suffering designed by elites to further their notions of a perfected society, climate or political control.  What is the fate of America if those currently in control continue abusing their power?