Here's some background to that statement, as the situation existed late last year.Higgenbotham wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 10:00 pmguest wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 9:08 pmWhat will the red areas do about the blue mobs showing up in their towns in America after the collapse?The safer areas, in my estimation, are going to be the areas where social capital remains stronger. Those are the areas with lots of red and orange on the county map of the US I linked to, which is old but still should be somewhat accurate. There will be some areas outside of that that will do OK if the government can be maintained at least on the local level and is well run (i.e. lower on the scale of corruption) but that typically goes hand in hand with the red and orange areas.There won't be enough fuel and supplies to run a 3-5,000 acre farm, which is the typical size of a farm in those areas.
https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2022/12/ ... -shortage/Already struggling, farmers face another challenge with diesel shortage
Zoë Blume/
Gaylord News
Dec. 26, 2022
As if this year hasn’t been rough enough on the agriculture community, farmers can now add “global diesel shortage” to their hardship bingo card for 2022.
Just weeks after Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed an executive order to continue drought relief efforts for farmers in that state, reports of what some are calling a devastating diesel shortage and the higher prices that come with it are rolling in to accompany farmers into the already harsh winter season.
“I’m harvesting soybeans that aren’t even worth harvesting right now,” Oklahoma farmer Tim Heinrich said last month.
Heinrich, who runs a 3,000-acre operation in north central Oklahoma, says a modern combine like the one he uses typically needs about 150 gallons a day to get the job done – a job that might ultimately cost him more in fuel than he will get back in sales. And the combine is just one piece of the operation affected by diesel costs.
“Most of us have diesel pickups that we use to feed cows with all winter long, all the trucks hauling the crops to and from the farm, all of our farm sprayers, our combines and our tractors,” said Heinrich, who also serves on the Garfield County Conservation District board of directors. “All of it is at the mercy of the rising cost of diesel.”
Another thing that can be clarified regarding that is if someone looks at the statistics on farm size, it will be seen that the average farm size in those states is smaller than 3-5,000 acres. That's because a lot of farmers retire and sell off most of their land but they still have what is considered to be a farm and a lot of farmers work at regular jobs and have smaller farms. A typical full time farming operation will be in that 3-5,000 acre range approximately and uses a lot of fuel.
There was a lot of talk about a diesel shortage late last year but it didn't materialize. The article says shortage but I think it was only in the sense of higher prices and everyone got the fuel they needed to run their operations.