The high cost of food - fertilizer production

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One of the major producers of fertilizer is shutting down. Fertilizer requires Nitrogen.  You get Nitrogen from Ammonia.  You make Ammonia from Natural Gas (methane). When Natural Gas becomes limited, food production tanks and food prices spike. They are trying to limit Natural Gas for heating but they are totally forgetting the unintended consequences - Natural Gas and other petrolium products are also vital feed-stocks to manufacturing.

Imagine a world without plastics, medicine, fertilizer, fabric, insulation on wiring, automotive parts, furniture, plumbing pipes, etc...

From Michael Yon:

BASF shrivels
03 March 2023
Orlando, Florida — by the airport

Significant — BASF closing down more nitrogenous fertilizer production. I’ve been warning every day since about the time the Globalist-war kicked up in Ukraine: significant interruption of nitrogenous fertilizer production/distribution contributes profoundly to global famine conditions.

This should be epic front page news across the globe. Barely a mention. If I were not specifically tracking ammonia and BASF I would have missed this.

Masako Ganaha and I visited BASF twice last year. A BASF worker at Ludwigshafen said reduction of natural gas inputs of below 50% “makes BASF dead.” (Nearly verbatim. Masako has on video).

Michael links to this article at Plastics Today:

BASF to Shutter TDI Plant, Shed Workers
Battered by the high cost of energy and raw materials, largely exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, chemicals giant BASF announced a series of “concrete measures” to strengthen competitiveness in its recent 2022 business report. During the presentation last month, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors Dr. Martin Brudermüller announced structural changes to the Ludwigshafen site along with other cost-saving initiatives. It will cut approximately 2,600 jobs as part of its “right-sizing” efforts.

Eating food grown without artificial fertilizers or pesticides is an indulgence that some Western cultures can afford.  For the rest of the world, it is pure absurdity.  Look at what happened to Sri Lanka when they tried to go organic - the farmers toppled the government.

The elites are playing with fire here.  They think that they are the smartest creatures to walk this planet.
They are not.  Let's just leave it at that...

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