The Low-Tech Times

The Low-Tech Times has covered stories on the possible return of the steam engine in railroading and of horses and mules in farming.

Now, amid continued rising fuel prices, Samatha Gross of the Associated Press reports that more people are trying to become self reliant in case a massive fuel crunch comes:

Convinced the planet’s oil supply is dwindling and the world’s economies are heading for a crash, some people around the country are moving onto homesteads, learning to live off their land, conserving fuel and, in some cases, stocking up on guns they expect to use to defend themselves and their supplies from desperate crowds of people who didn’t prepare.

What do you think? Are these people wackos? Or is better to be safe than sorry?