Plan on 2000 milligrams of salt per person per day, per year, per expected lifetime. Salt should be kept in a dry place which is secure from the predation of rodents, Margarita drinkers, porcupines and other small animals. The authors, as examples to all, may stockpile enough TP for all lifetime personal needs by usurping the area of a two car garage and parking vehicles on the street. As the stockpile of TP is slowly exhausted one hopes to use the freed up garage space for stacking firewood. Cheap gasoline is gone, available only in very small bottles as a nostalgic fragrance, a drop behind the ear, a drop inside the wrist, behind the knee.
Banks are reluctant to finance oil purchases unless borrower has fire insurance for the fuel.
Abandoned properties in cities cause bank failures due to heavy mortgage investments in urban real estate. Visa and Mastercard closed out. Urbanites emigrate to live among the ruralists with Grampa and Grammy, where up to 100 people need to share a single bedroom. A certain amount of discontentment follows. As there are only two senators per state, lawyers with similar characteristics may be substituted.