[Nataku X]

Makes sense re: seasonal adjustment, thanks--although a 20% jump in necessities over an year is still a worrisome thing...

[BohDaThone]

But note that the 20% jump is in one item, Residential natural gas -- that is up, largely as a result of huge increases in natural gas use for electricity -- NO Nukes, you know and No coal, and no , , , but it has saved the rest of the country, and even California, from supply shortages of electricity. The increases in "crude goods" at the bottom of the table are also from very depressed levels. The real price of a basket of raw commodities had been about 45% of what it was in 1967 -- that has now risen to about 55% of what it was in 1967!