Posted on 06/01/2022 2:39:27 PM PDT by blam
$5.79 for regular here in Scottsdale. Good thing I drive a 15 year old clunker - my son’s car needs premium!
Thank goodness for the Fry’s discount for spending $$ there on food, when you can find some!
$4.34 is a bargain. Gasoline and diesel is almost $7.00 in California. And Ca grows 80% of vegetables and fruits in the nation.
$5.79 for regular here in Scottsdale. Good thing I drive a 15 year old clunker - my son’s car needs premium!
Thank goodness for the Fry’s discount for spending $$ there on food, when you can find some!
Definitely a plus when you can find enough food to buy to make a dent in the price of gas. I also found gas at 4.94/gallon at Costco in N. Phoenix, although that was about a week ago so I’m sure it’s higher now.
“JPM Sees Oil Rising Up To $136 This Month Depending On What China Does, As Trader Bets Millions On Crude Explosion To $200”
I saw the CEO of one of the oil drilling outfits on Varney this morning. He was predicting $150/bbl by the end of the month, and a $6/gal national fuel price average. I pray he’s wrong...but I don’t think he is.
23% increase if my math is right.
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Fuel and food prices seem ever on the increase since biden. All voters are about to be very unhappy, especially biden voters, is the tale told. Instead of only the strong survive, we may be going toward only the wealthy survive ? Fun times ahead without the laughter, it does appear
It was extreme sarcasm.
So on top of everything else we are going to have to carry the burden of the layabouts who want to be paid for telling us how great a green economy will be even though productivity will suffer and costs will really go through the roof.
Elected Republicans need this talking point: Biden must appoint Donald Trump to lead a nonpartisan emergency management task force to address the fuel and food crisis.
Biden won't do it, but make Biden take to the airways and say to the American public - “There is no energy crisis. There is no inflation. Everything is fine!”
Well no inflation if we horizontally substitute worms and boiled grass.
I buy pretty much buy the same stuff at the grocery store every week. It’s just the two of us to feed, so you’d think that would be pretty simple, Right?
Nope. While I haven’t experienced any shortages of anything, my bill for the same groceries every week is up $50 a week, or $200 a month as of now.
We grow and can a lot of our own food and raise our own meat, which helps a lot. We eat simply and don’t entertain a lot other than family at the holidays - and that’s usually Pot Luck; everyone brings something.
$200 a month now is uncomfortable, but manageable. $400 a month is going to be VERY noticeable.
And don’t even get me started on what gasoline costs! Ugh!
All of this is so easy to fix. Reverse any and all of Brandon’s Executive Orders pertaining to oil and it will all magically take care of itself.
But, that’s not the plan, obviously.
The Dollar Tree store went from one dollar to $1.25.
That’s more than 8 percent too.
When I was a kid in the burbs of Chicago, we had the biggest snowstorm Chicago has ever had. Eventually the whole neighborhood ran out of food. The neighborhood dads took all the neighbors’ food lists, shoveled their way to a plowed road, took their kids sleds and walked miles to the closest grocery store.
Everyone became food hoarders ever since!
Started stocking up last fall.
The food inflation is a lot larger that 8%! More like 30%.
“...as people struggle to maintain their standard of living.”
Well, that’s the FIRST problem. If you haven’t been living BELOW your means for all of your adult life, you’re really going to take a hit, now. And it’s gonna hurt. Bigly.
Carter II on steroids! 2008 was child’s play as far as you losing on investments and savings. I’m well diversified, but my PMs are NOT filling in the gap of my other investments. :( Dollars/metals are running scared like a pup that’s been scolded.
Plan accordingly, FRiends.
Can't say for how long. They want us sitting in the dark hungry eating bugs.
EAT THE BUGS: UK Schoolchildren Fed Insects to Encourage ‘Sustainability’
I thought so but there are a few on FR that do think that way.
blam :" Get ready for blackouts, massive theft and riots. Democrats want to eliminate oil and gas. We lose everything.
My gasoline fill-up today was $4.34 a gallon, about 15 miles west of Mobile.
If I can get through another hurricane season unharmed, I'll face the (EVEN) higher food prices in October.
We need Trump NOW!
(From the article):" “Usually, what we see on the farm, the consumer doesn’t see for another 18 months,” said John Chester, a Tennessee farmer of corn, wheat, and soybeans.
But with the severity of these cost increases, consumers could feel the effects much sooner, particularly if weather becomes a factor.
Lorenda Overman, a North Carolina farmer who raises hogs and grows corn, soybeans, and sweet potatoes, said the spike in fuel costs has put her farm into the red this year.
“Nothing that consumers are paying is going to bridge the gap for farmers right now,” she said.
“The prices now have not hit the grocery stores yet,” but she expects they will start to by the end of summer."
"Much of the cost of food hinges on the price of oil."
H/T to blam for the "heads up" !
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