PRICE INCREASES ARE OUTRAGEOUS !

Premium gas in the panhandle of Florida is under $4.00 per gal. Paid $3.92 to fill the MB yesterday.

Starting to see lumber and building material prices edging down just a bit.

Wow! Hope your costs of materials starts to drop as well.

@aircooled

Price increase on EVERYTHING in past few months (especially in California)...   

The gouging of America. I can see during and a little after things quieted down but it seems like they're purposely riding this. I saw approx. $10 for pit stick in CVS last night. Torn between using my wife's or smelling bad for a while.

My equipment costs are up 50%- 100% from pre-2020 levels, assuming you can get equipment, which is spotty. Copper quotes are good for today, and today only because the price increases are coming daily. Refrigerant gasses are up 250%+.

Enhanced unemployment benefits continue unabated.

... meanwhile the Fed will raise interest rates in 2023. Maybe.

Friend has a shed company 14' x 32' wood construction was $7,000 now approaching $13k.    His steel RV - car ports that were $5,900 now $8,999 .

I just bought three 2"x 2" x 8's  for tomato stakes for $24.00 !

Gas here in  WV still at $2.78

The good news is that the Tuesday night all you can eat Spaghetti and Meatballs w/ garlic bread remains at $5.99 and a huge salad is only $1.50  !

I have a running speedster in route from Mass. to WV. I figured $700 or so  and I am a regular customer of the transporter,  it's $950 (WelI.... I still hope it is)

How about the rising polyester resin and gel coat prices. $53/Gallon

and $250 for a 5 gallon pail.  All new construction of kits will have to increase.

I'm sure this is mostly about low supply and high demand.  But when the government continues to print money it doesn't have inflation has to go up.

Wife still after new car - they have sticker that says Market Price Adjustment $5000.  I'm actually waiting to took at the new 2022 Hyundai GV70 - apparently show room models are now being released to dealers.

@550 Phil posted:

I'm sure this is mostly about low supply and high demand.  But when the government continues to print money it doesn't have inflation has to go up.

Actually the federal government has several ways to take money out of circulation. One of them is taxes, and you may have noticed some movement on that front.

Lumber prices have finally dropped ~45% up here in the last month but gas is still at Katrina-era prices, almost as high as it's EVER been. Grocery prices are way up over a year ago. Evidently we've all saved so much money being jailed in side for the last year that they can continue to gouge us for awhile further.

This is what "We the people" voted for. 1974 and 21% inflation is just around the corner. Those of you too young to remember get ready. Spend your money today; it won't buy as much tomorrow.

No surprise here.

I'm a pipefitter from Buttscratch, Nowhere, and Jerome Powell is the chairman of the Federal Reserve. He probably didn't spend his Senior year in High School sitting on the hood of his $50 Opel Manta eating a bag of Dolly Madison Do-nettes, nor would he fondly reminisce about it 40 years later if he had

... so I'm going to have to trust that he hit the books while he was at Yale or Harvard or wherever, and that he knows what the heck he's doing. Because it looks to this pipefitter from Buttscratch, Nowhere like he's been dropping acid in the boys room down at the Federal Reserve Governors meeting with the rest of his Fed buddies.

Perhaps if one of them needed a garage door for a carriage house in the Hamptons, or to build a boat dock at the cottage in Sag Harbor, they'd worry a just a teensy bit more about inflation.

But perhaps not. I'm sure that Mr. Powell's own portfolio is very secure and hedged against all eventualities, regardless of any turbulence his policies are causing out here in flyover country.

Gas is $4.02/gal here in Hilo, Hawaii...

That's about the average US per gallon price circa June 2008.* Of course, inflation-adjusted, it would have to be $5 today.

*The last heyday of my one-time near neighbor, Andrew Hall.

Yup...........a group of us bought a shipment of stuff from Sierra Madre last year October. I ordered a crap load of parts with the prize item being a shine down rear light for the back of my 55. This was the last period correct part that I needed and guess what....back order......From October 2020 to about 3 weeks ago was the wait. I couldn't get a refund because the new revised prices came in and what was $259 is now $425.00. So I had to wait.

I finally have the part though.

SM shows that they only have 9 of the lights left in stock.

Yikes! I just bought some Dellorto parts from Dellorto.com in the Netherlands because everyplace I searched here (mainly CB Performance) is out of stock. Prices weren't all that bad.

Shipping cost me three times the cost of the parts, or, I could have waited for the next comet to show up before I got them.

We are involved in a hobby that is just nuts.

DellortoShopUK is also a good source.

@Panhandle Bob posted:

We are involved in a hobby that is just nuts.

I'm as sane as you, Josephine.

This just in:

On May 26, I drove the limo to St. Louis to pick up 3 pallets of R507 and R407a refrigerants. The per cylinder cost was in the $95/cyl neighborhood. I had a feeling...

I checked pricing this morning - R507 is $344/cyl, R407a is $367/cyl. That's a 362% increase in R507 and a 386% increase in R407a in a little over 30 days. I've had similar increases across all refrigerants.

The $12,000 worth of gas I bought last month is now over $42,000. We'll see if there's anybody left to buy it after all the dust settles.

Tell me again how we're not deeply and absolutely screwed.