When the SHTF (pun intended) things to be shipped will be ranked in priority according to the cost-effectiveness of its transport. Obviously, scarce transport

When the SHTF (pun intended) things to be shipped will be ranked in priority according to the cost-effectiveness of its transport. Obviously, scarce transport will be used to ship high-value, low-physical-volume things rather than low-value, high-physical-volume things. Gold is the definitive high-value, low-physical-volume item. Toilet paper is the definitive low-value, high-physical-volume thing. As such it sits very low in the scale of transport priority. Consequently, it becomes one of the first items to run-out when a crisis hits. However, most families would normally keep several weeks' worth of toilet-paper on hand. So the current run on toilet-paper is, in my humble opinion, a waste of time, angst and money.