zombies, safe rooms and hoarding

[Chalo]

I had to give a report on pthalates. Rachel Carson silent spring kind of thing. I am a little wary about levels of heated plastic we are all experiencing. I try to use glass as much as I can, because the research seems to be pretty convincing (if the politics can be removed). I don't see a real good alternative, but it is so ever-present, I just avoid it as often as possible.

I don't think there are phthalates in food-grade polyethylene buckets, but then they don't go out of their way to tell us exactly what's in them either.

It's pretty obvious that (bottle) glass will leach the least contamination into whatever liquid is stored in it, but there's just no comparison between the practicality of a half dozen white plastic five-gallon buckets and the impracticality of a half dozen five-gallon glass carboys. That principle holds whether you're buying them, carrying them, storing them, or cleaning them.

As for serving-size glass bottles, I'd like to live in a city that either banned them outright or stuck a five-dollar deposit on each one. Disposable glass containers and pneumatic tires are incompatible technologies, and I like tires much better.

 

[salty9]

I hoard processes, and metal. Is it a guy thing? Or is there something wrong with me?

No. They could be defined as tools and man (until Jane Goodall found tool making chimps) was defined as the tool using animal. This is true for most men but me. I am defined as the tool losing animal.

They are usually found in my drawer marked STRING TOO SHORT TO SAVE.

 

[parajared]

So, if there is another gasoline crisis and we are cruising around on our e-bikes, are we going to get beat down and robbed silly?

I tend to think saving your cash is better, but buying cool survival stuff is more fun. I mean if you lose your job and can't make your payments you are in for a world of hurt.

I always thought that in a zombie apocalypse the other surviving humans would be the greater threat. I mean zombies have it rough; their primary source of food is also their biggest predator! It's like having to subdue a cheetah every time you want a hamburger.

 

[Grey beard]

In the '50s, there was a lot of fear of the Russians and nukes. Many people had bomb shelters. The things I remember being taught was that bottled beer was recommended as the substitute for water. Kerosene was the fuel of choice for lanterns and cooking stoves.

 

[Dauntless]

In the '50s, there was a lot of fear of the Russians and nukes. Many people had bomb shelters.

Think of all the uses the bomb shelter has right up to the day you use it.

So, if there is another gasoline crisis and we are cruising around on our e-bikes, are we going to get beat down and robbed silly?

They're going to try to take your electricity. That's where the volatility of the lithium becomes an asset.

[quote}I tend to think saving your cash is better, but buying cool survival stuff is more fun. I mean if you lose your job and can't make your payments you are in for a world of hurt.[/quote]

If you buy the RIGHT survival gear, let's just see them try to take it from you.