Last Saturday I found out exactly why the costs of everything are so high at the local ACE hardware. I was inquiring as to the cost of 1”X 2” X 8ft lumber, and was told it was $7.49 a stick. I about croaked on the spot as I had just sort of recovered from the discovery of $4.99 a stick price at Home Depot needing thirty sticks to complete a project. (I started this project when the lumber in question was $1.67 each, and thought that way too high.)
Regardless the fellow working the floor at ACE that told me the price of their lumber said that it was really too high a cost, and I readily agreed with him mumbling about the devalued dollar, Obama, etc. only to be told by the ACE employee that it was trucking causing the problem. I looked at him as though I forgot to flush, and asked him if he really thought trucking was the cause of the prices he is paying at the pump? He threw up his hands in a STOP expression, don’t bother me anymore with your devaluation of the dollar, Obama crap, and told me he was “a bit of an expert on the matter”.
So, there you have it from an “expert”. Truckers are ripping off America, and causing the prices at the pump.
Wondering how many such “experts” there are walking about so confident in their knowledge?
So did you inform his boss you were now voting with your feet?