Tactical

For years, preppers have been mocked for telling people to keep extra food, water, medicine and a way to get information when the power goes out. Now the British government is essentially telling its own citizens to do exactly that while rewriting a government war plan that hasn’t received a major overhaul in more than two decades. Britain is accelerating ...

With the Saudi pipeline being shut down, refineries in the Midwest dealing with outages, the war in Ukraine still hammering energy infrastructure, the Iran conflict disrupting Middle Eastern oil flows, and diesel prices surging here at home, I’ve been getting variations of the same question: How bad could this actually get? Are we looking at another recession, food shortages, food ...

Last week, we warned that America’s fuel system was heading into refinery maintenance season with dangerously little room for another major disruption. Then another disruption showed up. Exxon Mobil’s Joliet refinery outside Chicago lost power Sunday and shut down. As of Friday morning, it still wasn’t running, and Exxon had not given a restart date. The company has since disclosed ...