[heroineworshipper]

But Mad Max didn't have mortgage stimulus packages.

[jlw61]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('sittinguy', 'D')ouble taxes and inact martial law with a gaurdsman at every stop sign. I wonder if the gaurd at the end of my street will like oatmeal or chocolate chip?

[FourOfSwords]

Not sure. If we take with a grain of salt how this all plays out, I venture that we might see a modern equivalent of what happened in the Late Roman Empire as they, empire wide, experienced gradual (and not so gradual contractions). During this, those that had the power base and the Dinarii, hired their own small security force/army. They were called Bucellarii. It was usually an estate owner, or senatorial class that had large enough holdings, that it was deamed necessary to defend,and that the local/provincial law enforcement/standing army could not respond in time to.
Fast forward to today, with the increasing use and selling of professional security firms, and the much increased use of paramilitary security forces in Iraq to give you a broad hint at a PO Mad Max world...or we could transition to a happy flower child like commune melieu...
Cheers
Alex

[Pops]

This is the Doing Forum folks, not the Speculating Forum.

[roccman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'T')his is the Doing Forum folks, not the Speculating Forum.

[TheDude]

It involves problems that will be of more importance as fuel becomes more scarce, in situations that are evident right now, so this is not Speculation. Planning in isolation is only useful if you're ready to spread the word to your neighbors, or if you're Ed Abbey sitting out on a mesa, and crime will become a part of everyday life with millions unemployed and hungry. To think otherwise is comparable to a neocon preparing to spread democracy in the Middle East. I intended this thread to generate some useful discussion, despite the title. Also gave the choice of venue some thought. If Guns belong in PFTF why not Crime, hmm?

The forum guidelines at this site couldn't be more lax anyway. 6,000,000,000 die-off has nothing directly to do with hydrocarbon depletion, yet there all 59 pages of it are in the Peak Oil Discussion. We should have a special forum for these wallowing in corpses yaps: Monte's Fun Fest of Capacity Overshoot. Like anybody's going to care if it's 2 billion dead or 3 billion at the moment.

The other replies (especially FourOfSwords's) offers the sort of input I was looking for.

[Rogozhin]

Mad Max!!!???
Have you all completely lost it?
That's a rethorical question because I know that a majority of you have lost 'it' and have a modus operandi that is not specific to your quiddity.

[MD]

moved to "open discussion"- md

[Ludi]

Folks in "Mad Max" seemed to have plenty of gasoline to go driving all over the place......

[BigTex]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'F')olks in "Mad Max" seemed to have plenty of gasoline to go driving all over the place......

[mobil1]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BigTex', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'F')olks in "Mad Max" seemed to have plenty of gasoline to go driving all over the place......

[joelcolorado]

I think that the huge numbers of ppl who own weapons in the USA will keep things from getting too far out of hand. We will form neighborhood militias at the worst case and maintain our own law and order like in the past.
People will rise to the occasion and there are always enough people like me who can and will take the innitiative and cause othes to be civil. Even by force of arms if need be.
There are plenty of ppl with military experience who will be available to help maintain the peace etc. Might work better than what we have now if everyone was in on it as then each person would be responsible for safety. Like in Israel. They all have machine guns but none of them shoot each other.

[Ludi]

Hell's Grannies

[joelcolorado]

those biker chicks are the type that you get done with sex and go...I am done...and they say

OH NO YOUR NOT

[cannedsalmon]

Close, but not correct.

The Mad Empire:

[BigTex]

This looks like a good place to insert a few shots from "The Switchblade Sisters."

[manu]

Or maybe Olga the Hun and her horsewomen will kill and plunder from Central Asia to Europe.

[skeptik]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'F')olks in "Mad Max" seemed to have plenty of gasoline to go driving all over the place......

[cannedsalmon]

I know a biker who throws in one of those small vials of lavender oil in each fillup, when she drives around she smells like a lavender plant going by.

a quarter cup of peanut oil in the tank smells like roasted peanuts, makes you hungry.

You can mix small quantities of any oil in your gas no problem, the odor comes through nicely, I was thinking of peppermint in my bike.