The Media asks " Why Prep"

[NorthernRaider]

The media asks “ why prep ?” is it we think the world will end in 2012, or Iran is going to invade Wolverhampton, Do we envisage a plague of locusts descending on the cider apple crop of Little Snitterton, are we expecting a Mega tsunami in the boating pool at Lytham St Anne’s ? Are thousands of Islamic extremists going to steal old Albert Smith 500 gallons of heating oil? No sorry to spoil your documentary but the facts are far more mundane.
Why prep is the question on many journalists, film makers and newsmen’s lips, from Channel 4 to Nat Geo they all want to know what drives people to (A) stockpile food that will last maybe a year or more, (B) why do we drive 4x4s generally, © why do we live away from cities, (D) why do we safely store extra diesel and petrol, (E) why do we have wood burning stoves.
Why?
(A) Because we may lose our jobs or truck drivers may go on strike so we use the food as insurance against hard times.
(B) Because we remember winter 2010 when even the police, army and government agencies got stuck, and villages got cut off for days with millions of people left helpless, we ensured we could help our neighbours.
© Because we see the effects of city gang crime, ethnic unrest, overcrowding, union control of public transport systems, the risk of pandemic disease and the utter reliance on the supply chain.
(D) Because we know what the general public are like and how easily they are panicked into knee jerk hysteria driven panic buying (look at the news from the 20th March 2012 to at least the 5Th March) just the remote possibility of a fuel tanker driver’s strike at least two weeks in the future was enough to make the sheeple panic buy thus causing chaos and a self-fulfilling prophecy of chaos.
(E) Because we have seen the reports about the vulnerability of the gas and oil supply system and its vulnerability to sudden surges in cost.
Why prep? Easy because it’s just common sense.