Lore wrote:Expect a few blow outs along the way to that food line. Maybe preppers with bicycles should start stocking up on patches? On the other hand, I'm not sure I'd want to ride my bicycle to a food line, you present a pretty vulnerable target. It's really hard to defend yourself over ruff terrain with both hands on the handlebars. Better learn to ride hard and fast if you do.
I know yall are just ragging on bicycles because a very large portion of commuters really could bike to work if necessity kicked them hard enough in the teeth, and that kinda messes with one of the proposed impossible problems of peak oil...
Still, I don't think we can get to the
food line stage before the
civil war stage; simply because SNAP is more efficient at rationing and distributing free food than food lines are; if the government were to want to pass out more free food; they'd just bump up the SNAP allowances. That's really the whole point of the program; it gets sold as a way to prevent the horror of hunger in America, but its real and simple purpose is to insure that the [loan -> plant -> harvest -> sell -> pmt on loan] loop never gets interrupted, causing food to rot and good farm infrastructure to rust in place.
If it got to the point where SNAP cards couldn't be processed, there would be no food lines to go to; and we'd likely be shooting each other for crumbs.
Now, about vulnerability and cycling, its quite true and blatant; what's not so apparent though is that cars and motorbikes aren't much better; short of being armored as humorously noted above; a one pound rock tossed at a vehicle driving at any speed at all will go right through the glass and smush the bones of the occupant. Basically, if we're in a lawless period, travel becomes exceptionally dangerous, regardless of means. Personally, I'm going on foot, looking like the poorest of the poorest; if I have to travel at all, which I wouldn't do unless life depended on it.