The cost of prescriptions and health care will skyrocket. One reason will be that almost everything necessary for the production of drugs consists of some form of plastic or other petroleum-based material. A second reason will be that the pharmaceutical companies will try to recover money which was lost due to the drastic devaluation of their respective stocks.

Prices for fresh food will skyrocket. Petroleum is vitally necessary for the production of the world’s food supply. Pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and fertilizers are all produced from oil and modern agriculture cannot succeed without them. Gasoline and diesel fuel are required for farm equipment, as well as for the transportation of agricultural goods to market. The public, in general, will resort to consuming the filling but undernutritious and unhealthy products which the fast food industry vends because they are less expensive. Vascular disease will take an even greater toll on the public health due to the enormous fat and sodium content of their newly adopted diet.

The most significant population migration to have ever occurred in the history of the industrialized world will be set in motion in 2010 and 2011, but it may not be as one might predict. Retirees will be emigrating from the first world nations to the second and third world countries in an unprecedented exodus!

Citizens from the United States of America, Canada, Great Britain, and from all over Europe will find that it will behoove them to cut their losses and take up residence in the poorer nations. So many of them will entirely give up citizenship in their former countries that “Little Americas” and “Little Europes” will spring up in countries as diverse as Chile, Ecuador, Turkey, Benin, Togo and Mauritania.

The countries from which they emigrate will, temporarily, halt the exodus for the false reason of “national security”; the actual reason will be to enact an emigration or exit tax on those foresighted citizens of the industrialized world who are moving to other countries.

The living expenses for the expatriots moving to the lesser developed countries will be a fraction of what they would have been in the former, home countries, and the new host countries will welcome the new arrivals with open arms. The ensuing economic boom for the poorer nations will raise the standards of living for all of their citizens.

One last surprise is in store for the United States.

There will erupt what will be called the “Carolina Volcano“. By 2012, a mysterious and frightening series of widespread insect and forest animal migrations through the towns and cities of western  North and South Carolina will be quickly followed by the appearance of new hot springs. These events will be rapidly followed by tremors, and then, the volcano. Due to its raw, explosive nature and the sheer mass of material thrust up into the stratosphere and destined to fall and cover a wide swath of the eastern seaboard, large cities such as Richmond, Washington, and Baltimore will be evacuated until it is deemed safe to return.

I urge all college and university students across the United States, England, and the countries of Europe to make their friends and school newspapers aware of this article and the substance which it contains. Spread the news. Tell your parents. If I am correct, and it seems that I am so far, retirement accounts must be attended to and liquidated now, and not next year, in order to salvage any remnant of value. Make sure that your passports and immigration materials are up-to-date and in order. The “BIG MIGRATION“, as I call it, will soon be underway.

I sincerely hope you’ve moved to the highlands of Ecuador or to southern Turkey well before the hot springs and then the volcano. The economy of the United States will be the worst it has been since the Civil War.