When the parking lot at Wal Mart is nearly empty mid afternoon, it tells a lot about the economy.
People are hunkering down. Worried about heating their homes and filling their gas tank.
And there are a lot of people out of work, not reflected in the “government’s statistics”.
A lot of money is being lost on wal Street.
o_zarkman44: “A lot of money is being lost on Wall Street.”
A lot of opportunities to make money on Wall Street when this turns around. I just love bargain hunting, even though it’s pretty perilous right now.
5% unemployment is recessionary? FULL employment is 4%!
People need to turn the MSM crapmongers off!
The gas man filled our LP tank today. He put in 225 gallons of LP at the bargain price of $2.07 per gallon. The total bill was $465.75 for ONE MONTH of heating the house. (Last month it was $2 even per gallon, so it’s up 3.5% in one month.)
Last year at this time the same amount of LP would have cost $326.25 ($1.45/gal). Two years ago, the same amount would have cost 303.75 ($1.35/gal).
That’s a 42.7% increase over last year. There is no way anyone, no matter how much they hem, haw, lie and cajole, can justify that kind of price increase for a vital product like home heating fuel.
Something has got to give, because this simply cannot continue. We’ll be moving to Phoenix or Miami if it does!