Australians are about to experience the biggest drop in their standard of living in more than 100 years. We are at the historic end of the expansion of western civilisation.
If US bombs bridges and power plants in Iran, (a war crime), then Iran may destroy the fuel refineries in the Middle East. When combined with the ongoing destruction of Russian oil refineries, this could cause several years of global fuel shortage.
In the months ahead, we may see a restriction of the liquid fossil fuels, which power both the economy and the global food supply.
Fuel demand will have to be greatly reduced, either voluntarily, by unaffordable prices, or by legislation. The Australian National Liquid Fuel Emergency Response Plan allows for fuel rationing. There are going to be those with pedal power, equine or electric transport and a way to sustain that transport and those without such transport, who likely won’t have much transport, except public transport. Therefore, we are entering into a phase, we have never experienced before. Unfortunately, next year we may see fuel rationing, food shortages, lawlessness in Australia: all the consequences of a distant war.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
