June 25 th Little Closer to Doom it seems

Doom also seems closer in the summer heat--I have 3 full mor months of it to go. I count September as summer.

-Dow Chemical is increasing prices 25% on it product; as of June 1st it had just increased them 20%. So 45% increase in about one month! :0 Yikes—this is a lot of cleaning products and makeup products for one thing. I don’t know about hair dye and nail polish—I’m going to miss those two things a lot when they’re not available—sigh,

-Quaker oats processing plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa was closed June 11 because of the flood threats there. That’s why there were so few rolled and quick oat packages available at the store yesterday, I’ll bet.

I wondered what “thing” of the issues surrounding us—climate change, gasoline prices and/or shortages, electricity prices, local government budgets, consumer good prices increasing, food supply issues and prices, housing/real estate issues, financial system issues—would “get us’ first. I’m not sure what I mean by “get us” because as a national economy it’s the financial problems that have actually gotten us first, credit crunch and too much debt, too much leverage, etc.

But my personal “getting” isn’t the price of gas; it’s the price of food and possible shortages. I find this extraordinarily frightening. I suspect my next “getting” will be the price of electricity in my bill for July. New rates go into effect this summer with July and august as the most expensive electric season in my part of Arizona.