America's Economic Famine: Why Food Will Get Harder

We're starting to see the motor oil shortage uh in America. Uh fertilizer shortages coming. Uh so uh you know I I I talked to Michael Yaan weekly uh probably. You know, he's still predicting famine for Europe, but I don't see famine for America anytime soon, although things are going to get harder uh just because America is so vast and and individual communities and farmers are so resourceful. But what do you think? Well, to be clear, Michael Yaan definitely predicts famine for North America. Uh I've been a lot more cautious on that kind of prediction. I've said that food will become more expensive and the you know, the the choices of food will be narrowed significantly. The real issue as I see it is going to be, you know, reduced crop yields because of much higher costs of fertilizer, and then much higher cost of diesel fuel for transportation and for tractors and farm equipment. So, the thing about food prices going much, much higher is that for some people who are just barely able to survive financially, that that equals starvation for those people, but for economic reasons. It's not that the food isn't available, ...