All right. This is one that I waited too long for, although you've probably not heard. Um, I wrote, I'm going to read what I wrote. Exactly. And this has been in this file for at least six months might be over a year. I don't have time stamps on this, but I haven't touched this part in a very long time
, uneven prices for power. Look for a slate of new charges to creatively target those who will pay more graduated rates for usage either time or quantity, special rates for convenience appliances, like air conditioning. Um, but actual, uh, sorry that actually target people with larger homes, larger families
and larger incomes. And I saw just the other day a headline that said the California State legislature had discussed a law that would charge utility rates based on income. And so this is I've got a whole file. How many pages I've got 30 pages of future warnings that, uh, I've only shared like two pages
of to date. And, um, this is one that I guess I didn't get out in time, but, you know, maybe you haven't heard about it yet and it certainly hasn't come to you yet because they didn't pass it in California. They're just discussing it. And California likes to pass these Draconian things. 123 years into
the future. So it'll, it'll be a minute before it gets to everyone else. But, you know, in the scope of things, five years from now, if we're, if we still have internet, we'll look back at these videos and say, oh, wow. You know, somebody knew about that way before it happened, utility rates, we're going
to talk about power in general in this video. Uh Electricity, gas, these sorts of things, utilities, you don't see it, but the infrastructure has been gutted. So it's a confluence of factors. It's not just the green movement, although that's an enormous piece of it. Um So the green movement itself, it
, it's also labor. So it's a cost of, it's inflation, it's a cost of living. It's also the fact that the younger generation refuses to work um for anything close to what they're worth, they want to be paid way more than they merit. And that's an issue too that's going to rub some feathers. I don't care
. It's true. Um So, so that's in a nutshell. That's the confluence of factors that is going to um drastically change your standard of living from here on out. It's, it's already happening. Um Most of the changes are like I said, it's rotting from the inside and you won't see it until it's far too late
to do anything about. And we're going to talk about what the effects of that will be. But I want to, I want to touch on the Green Movement. The principle is bigger than the Green Movement. Here's the principle. Let's criticize and remove things that we don't like without having anything better to replace
it. That's the principle you see this principle everywhere you look and it's satanic, it's very bad. It's a very bad principle. Even from a nonspiritual perspective, it's a terrible idea from a secular perspective. You don't need religion to make this one look bad as is the case with everything. Actually
. Um If you, the magical thing about understanding religion is when you understand it, but you, you almost never have to appeal to it to explain why things are bad. But that's, I guess a different ball of wax. So the, the principle of let's criticize something without having anything to replace it. That's
actually what Isaiah is talking about when he says uh what's that passage about tearing things down and building them back again? I know there's a, the word sycamore is in it. Bricks, sycamores, it looks OK. This is Isaiah nine. Which translation do we wanna use? Let's just go for the King James. Um
The bricks are falling down but we will build with hewn stones, the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. If you read the Hebrew, what's actually going on there is, um, they're, they're taking away the better building materials and suggesting that somehow they're going to have
something better to replace it with when they don't actually have anything better yet. And it's very clear that they don't have anything better yet. This happens all the time in the modern world. So on the individual level, one example of this principle is maybe this impulse of human nature or this tactic
, this tactic of human manipulation is really what it is. Evil. People use this on foolish people and it works, you point out the faults of something or someone and you get you convince the mob to tear it down while you don't have anything to replace it with, but you promise them that the thing that
you'll have later is better or you say let's replace it with this thing that's obviously worse. But if we can get people to adopt it, it'll magically transform into something better. So can you think of examples of this? What about wind and solar? There are some examples of this. There is no way to make
that kind of power available, reliably. You're always dependent on the weather which changes and people can't even predict it. But we, we can predict that it will be unpredictable. We can predict that there will be lapses and we do not have any capacity to store and produce that energy on demand in any
fashion that's anywhere near as cost effective. As fossil fuels and you say, well, fossil fuels are limited and so we need something else. Ok, fine. That's a separate argument. That's a completely separate argument to what are we doing right now? And the point is anything else that we know of is going
to cost way more than what you currently pay and be far less available. So how is that principle applied to individuals just to say my piece here when you criticize other people without having something better to offer, you're doing this, there are many people out there, it's almost like they make it
their living to tear down things that serve a purpose and they don't have anything to replace it with. That's evil. It's not good. You're making the world a worse place by definition. So if you're going to criticize something first, ensure that you have something better to replace it with. Now, there
are things that are better to not have, even if you don't have a replacement for them, but those are the minority there. There aren't many things like that because by definition, if you adopt something, it's because you think it has something to offer. So if it's a total fraud, you know, different story
. But, um, you know, most pets aren't alligators. That's, that's always a bad idea. That's always a bad idea. Right. It's better to not have a pet than to have a pet alligator, but most pets have something to offer and if you just say, well, sometimes a dog pees on the, on the inside, on the rug. It's
like, ok, what about all the good things? Is it worth it? And what are you going to replace it with? There's, there's a specific example for you that, that doesn't touch anyone's sacred cows. Although I know that, that just given the world there's gonna be some guy who has an alligator who writes this
long post about it goes on L DS freedom for him and rants about pet alligators for a quarter of their life because they have nothing better to do. Um, yeah, so back to power. So I guarantee you that there will be rolling blackouts in the United States and I will precisely say what I mean. There will
be surprise blackouts in the United States and it's going to get so bad that at least in some places they will have scheduled blackouts. It's, it's, it's beyond the scope of imagination for any person I know in this country. Although maybe someone's out there expecting it. You are going to get used to
the idea. It, it won't even really be newsworthy like school shootings aren't anymore. Do you remember when they used to be a big deal? Now? It's like, it's no different than if the sewer main broke out front of the school. It's like, oh, well, it happens sometimes everybody goes back tomorrow. So as
they get this fixed and that's what it's going to be like with power outages. So scheduled and unscheduled, these are going to become a way of life. Now, what's going to happen is a lot of homes and companies are going to buy generators and it's gonna cost a fortune and it's going to exacerbate the demand
for the limited supply of gasoline. So, um, these are things to think about, you know, our way of life. A lot of people, especially with large families have even more than one refrigerator or freezer or if you're a hunter or if you have access, you have hookups for, you know, buying a half a cow or something
, you know, farmers and you can get things direct from the farm and you save money that way. Well, what are you gonna do with your three freezers when the power goes out unpredictably? What are you going to do if you work from home and you're out of power all these hours a day on a regular basis? So
if you want to know that basically inconvenience goes up, your productivity goes down, your cost of living goes up, your standard of living goes down, that's a pattern you're going to see in and through every facet of your life as time goes on. God is going to, if you want to know the reason God is exposing
us to more and more of the consequences of our wickedness, that's not to say punishment for bad things. It's to say he's exposing us to more of what we actually deserve. Instead of all these magical goodies that he gives us a mercy, hoping that we will use them to advance our righteousness, which people
have not done. You get a greater standard of living. The first thing you do is you go out and you have more fun. You exchange your time for pleasure, you exchange your money for pleasure and not just pleasure but pleasure. Right now, God wants us to use it to maximize our long term joy. And the way you
do that is by improving yourself and serving others. And that's not what people do. And so this is the consequence. So you're gonna see rolling blackouts. Um Now you're also going to see this at the appliance level and this is one of many of these situations that are already in place. There are many
places mostly on the east coast that have these smart meters already installed and they can actually cap your electricity usage. It's sometimes they're on specific appliances like your AC unit, your HVAC. I haven't heard any stories of people of companies doing this with heating, but they might, but
they definitely do it with cooling where they will actually shut down or, or limit your device during peak usage. And that's one way they're getting around doing rolling blackouts because otherwise they would just have to shut down parts of the grid in order to um, well, they're not meeting demand, but
in order to address the fact that they can't meet demand, but instead of doing that, they're capping appliances. So just to give you an idea of the drastic changes that this can affect, let's say you live in Houston, Texas, for example. And the only way you can get through life is through air conditioning
. Well, as far as you're willing to tolerate is through air conditioning in the summer time. And this is the, the, the way it is for half of geographically, up to half of the country that it gets so hot in the summertime and people rely on these air conditioners. Well, what if all of a sudden you can't
use it now, this isn't electricity isn't the only way that that could occur. Like with most of these things, there are multiple inputs. One of them is the cost of refrigerant, which is a huge issue or the push for ultra quote unquote efficient appliances. And if you mix all these together, essentially
what happens is either because of lack of supply or um abundance of cost, people can't use air conditioning. So what happens when people can't use air conditioning? And we could go through the same analysis with heat in the winter and a lot of people heat with oil, they burn oil instead, kerosene. Um
And, and obviously that taps into problems with, um with those fuels, but the outcome is the same, you will have many places in the United States where the cost of living or the quality of life falls above or below respectively, the required threshold for it to be worth it for people. Imagine what would
happen if across a region. All of a sudden, all of a sudden the only people that can, that can stand to live there are the really rich who can, who just shell it out anyway because they don't care and they are really poor who don't have enough money to move. And that, I mean, if you're living, check
to check, you don't have enough money to move, you have to borrow money to move. And, and there are a lot of people in this country that don't have enough space on their credit cards to afford a moving truck. And so this is quite something and you're going to see it unfold. Now, what if your business
, and let's say your margins are so low and this isn't hard to imagine. There are a lot of businesses with low margins, meaning that they're not very profitable. And these companies tend to be, well, they, they tend to either be big old zombie corporations or really small businesses, mom and pop kind
of places like the laundromat down the street. Well, um, what happens if you're one of these mom and pop businesses, um, you know, a restaurant, whatever, a local grocery store and all of a sudden you have to shell out a massive amount of money to run generators to keep your freezers going. If you're
at a grocery store or to, um, keep your laundry machines going, if you're a laundromat and on and on and on, well, you're going to have to go out of business because your company is no longer profitable without very cheap electricity. And by very cheap, I mean, whatever you're paying right now. So the
, the question with these sorts of scenarios is what can you absorb in terms of percent inflation? That's one piece of it. And the other is, can you operate without what you take for granted right now? Which is if you, if there just isn't electricity, what would you do? Because even generators, that's
not a solution. It's hilarious that people think it is. Where are you going to get the fuel from? There's only so much fuel, that's just as subject to limitations as electricity is. Ultimately, it's all coming from the same place. So the electricity by and large is coal powered, uh coal fueled power
plants and uh generators run on gas, some, some run on gasoline, others run on gas, gas. But you can also get dual fuel, which is nice um To give yourself, give yourself some more options. But you know, so there are people in rural areas who have generators already and there are fancy systems you can
get, you can get them at Costco where you can get your house wired to switch over automatically if there's a power outage switch back, I guess when the power comes back on, I assume that's, that part is the case. That, that part, I don't know. Well, who's gonna fill your gas tank at your house, your
propane tank or whatever you have? Um, somebody's got to do that. That company has to have power too. So, um, what ends up happening is the cost to address potential situations, keeps going up as the range of situations gets broader. But it's all just a mitigation. It's not a solution to the problem
. It doesn't make the problem go away. It just reduces the number of cases that are gonna be problematic for you, but they already are problematic if you have to pay that overhead to address them. You see, so it's diminishing returns, everything just costs more and you get less, it costs more and you
get less. That is the babylonian bait and switch is, you know, none of us chose this system. None of us chose this system. If you were born at a date where you're alive right now, you're born into this system. It doesn't matter where you live in the world. Um Very few exceptions anyway. So, but, but
uh the promise is very different than what's delivered and the cost keeps going up while the benefit keeps going down and that pattern will just continue and it will accelerate. And it's a great aunt that keeps going up with spikes as far as the cost and it's a gradient that's going down with spikes
as far as the benefit. So, um let me just look at my notes to see if. Yeah, so, so one pattern you're gonna see is that these blackouts at first they're gonna have really good reasons for happening, not, not good in the sense of yay but um good as far as stated reasons that make sense. Oh, well, this
giant transformer went down or there was a cyber attack or this happened or that happened, whatever. Um But eventually those reasons will go away and it will just become the norm. So, um the things to get across here include that generators will be very popular, but they'll also be harder to come by
. Generators are not meant as independent power sources. They're bandaids and they're not easy to run. We had a bunch of generators in my unit when I was in the military and there are all kinds of crazy things that it's a complicated thing. It's not just a flashlight that you turn on, you have it in
a drawer, you turn it on when you need it. And all you have to do is replace the batteries when they go out. It's not like that generators are complicated. There's a bunch of new wiring that you need in your house to run a generator. And depending on the size of your house, it's unlikely that you can
have a whole house generator. They, you're, you're gonna have to pick and choose what you have on. You know, if you have a, well, for example, you probably want a generator. That's not your first thing to worry about. The first thing is to get water out of the ground and store it somewhere. Get those
big blue barrels. But once you have water, then you've got your short term taken care of. You're not gonna need water. I guess it's, it's, it's the short or medium term that water barrels, address or jugs, whatever you've got, um, it, it would be nice to be able to fire on a generator if the power is
out and you need to take a shower. That's a convenience thing to keep life going. Or, um, you need to turn on refrigerators or something to make sure your food doesn't go bad if you don't have power for three days, five days, whatever, you can just cycle that thing and turn on the whatever freezer fridge
you have and cycle them if you need to. But, you know, it's not just you flip a switch and magically you're immune to power outages. Another thing is generators don't run forever. They need maintenance. Who are you gonna call to maintain your generator? Do you think there's some generator mechanic guy
driving around in a truck that makes 10 bucks an hour that's gonna fix your generator? No, if it breaks, you're gonna have to go out and buy another generator. Right. So, for the most part, um, it's like having a little car. It's not something that you're gonna go work on yourself for most cases. Although
there are exceptions to that. Of course, people go out there and they change their own springs and things. Um. Right. So, think about this in terms of where you live, think about what you can do if there's no furnace or if there's no heat pump or if there's no space heaters or if there's no air conditioning
, you have to think about that and make the changes. Now, especially the ones that don't really cost tons of money to make, uh, relative to the mitigation of these problems. So, if you live in a sweltering hot place, you might want to move to a place that's not so hot and if you live in a place that's
freezing cold, you might want to make sure that you have a wood stove and plenty of access to woodd. Since we're on that topic. I'll just mention there are a lot of people who don't realize that governments can outlaw wood stones. It's happened in places like in Utah they did that. Um, and if you had
one and you relied on it for heat. Oh, well. And then, um, I think that was grandfathered in actually anyway. But, but you can't buy a house with a wood stove there anymore as far as I know. Um, it might just be provost Salt Lake area. I don't know. Um, so they can ban wood stoves. They can also, they
can implement rules against cutting wood. But, but wood cutting is another thing, like people say, well, if they run out of, if the grocery stores shut down or there's some problem in supplies, I'm just gonna go hunt. I know how to hunt or even worse. I have a gun. How hard could it be? Just, you should
go and hunt before you before you think it's so easy. Anyway, what happens when a lot of people start doing that? Well, there aren't enough animals to go around and this is the thing in general when you start getting closer to living off the land, just getting closer, you don't have to get totally near
to it, but just a little closer than you are. What you realize is the immense cost of our standard of living. You have no idea. You, you have to live the work and do the math. Do the math on the, the energy units that you spend every day. That the human work equivalent of that. How many hours they, they
have names for this, that people have worked out. I don't remember. Power slaves. I think so. The, the, the number of human equivalents working for you full time is if you had some slave, some slave was zero overhead. By the way, some slave that never had to be fed and didn't need to rest and never got
injured and never got sick. Uh And who never rebels obviously. So how many of those people would you need to power your current life? If you live a completely normal life, you live in an apartment or townhouse and you drive 30 minutes to work and you eat completely normal food. You require an army of
power slaves every day and you don't realize this, but you will, you'll approach that as the changes that are coming come and you'll see just what kind of wealth you live in. Even if you consider yourself poor, you'll see what real poverty is like. And you're not going to like it. I guarantee it. So
the point that I've made again and again is make use of what you have while you have it because you're not going to have it. You need to be thinking like some movie scenario where you're a billionaire and you know that in three weeks time, you're not going to be a billionaire. I'm not saying you only
have three weeks, but in a short period of time, it's like the parable of the unjust steward. That's your situation right now. I promise you, you have all these things, they have access to all these resources and you're not using them, how the Lord would have, you use them and he's going to take them
away. So you need to start planning your life for when he does. You need to start making decisions to maximize the outcomes for after the lights go out. And if you use the resources so that when the lights go out, you're a little bit more comfortable than other people. That's the worst thing you could
do. That's the worst possible thing you could do. So, uh you need to go in the direction of improving yourself and serving others. That's the goal. All right, I think that does it for, for power outages. And I made this one before it happened. So thankfully I waited too long on others, but this one made