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The DR only has a week?s reserve of liquid fuels
The population will continue to increase and their poverty will increase along with them. As those numbers swell up and as each family unit lives with less, the sum total will be a mass of Dominicans living like their miserably impoverished counterparts by the millions in India. The raw population numbers will increase but what they live on will decrease to the point that you can quantify proportionally total caloric intake as a ratio of increasing population numbers.
As the population increases, they will continue to dwindle and strain DR resources. Exhausting gas supplies, food supplies, water supplies to the point that no amount of subsidies will be able to reverse those conditions. In other words, the population will grow to the point that they will outrun any effects that subsidies have to maintain the semi-functional state as it is right now. So, why is anyone surprised by any of this?
The DR as CC has stated has seen these times before. The difference today is that with a population of over 10 million the misery, suffering and civil unrest will be unlike any other time in DR history. During colonial times up to the very early 20th century, even up to and during Trujillo's times, the DR could deal with economic collapse because the population was sufficiently small enough that the DR could ecologically deal with the populations economic failures brought about by government inefficiencies. Do you believe the DR can do that today?
With a large concentration of Dominicans warehoused in a capital city which for most of DR's history did not extend much beyond the colonial zone, the consequences of collapse are unimaginable. In the past, the small DR population was dispersed throughout agricultural areas where a simple agrarian lifestyle though of a subsistence nature ensured survival somehow. What do you think will happen today in a DR that has left behind its agrarian ways, have concentrated in large cities and have grown to the point where it needs to be subsidized to survive? You think it'll be smooth sailing. Think again!!!
As the population increases, they will continue to dwindle and strain DR resources. Exhausting gas supplies, food supplies, water supplies to the point that no amount of subsidies will be able to reverse those conditions. In other words, the population will grow to the point that they will outrun any effects that subsidies have to maintain the semi-functional state as it is right now. So, why is anyone surprised by any of this?
The DR as CC has stated has seen these times before. The difference today is that with a population of over 10 million the misery, suffering and civil unrest will be unlike any other time in DR history. During colonial times up to the very early 20th century, even up to and during Trujillo's times, the DR could deal with economic collapse because the population was sufficiently small enough that the DR could ecologically deal with the populations economic failures brought about by government inefficiencies. Do you believe the DR can do that today?
With a large concentration of Dominicans warehoused in a capital city which for most of DR's history did not extend much beyond the colonial zone, the consequences of collapse are unimaginable. In the past, the small DR population was dispersed throughout agricultural areas where a simple agrarian lifestyle though of a subsistence nature ensured survival somehow. What do you think will happen today in a DR that has left behind its agrarian ways, have concentrated in large cities and have grown to the point where it needs to be subsidized to survive? You think it'll be smooth sailing. Think again!!!
Yes, there are several sizes. The small one used for BBQs in NJ. Then there are the big "100 pound" tanks, and one about half that size. We've got all of them. To fill the big one last spring [in DR] was about 2400 pesos, just under $60. It lasts us for months of cooking. We use a half size one for our on-demand propane hot water heater - the same tank is still going after 2 years, but we're not there full time.