jyoutz
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Today’s prices locally to me.87 octane is $3.76 here
Today’s prices locally to me.87 octane is $3.76 here
Our electric company increased its prices 45% last June, and our water increased 25% last June.It‘s funny isn’t it??? listening to the remaining few who actually believe the economy doesn’t suck worse than ever try to convince us everything’s fine.
My wife is working a second job just to make an extra 5k the last 2years to make up for increasing costs of food, fuel, insurance.
”I see better than I hear”
Wow. A big difference. We do have several in-state refineries, so maybe that’s the difference or local fuel taxes?And here is ours
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It’s obviously different in different regions of the country. Business is brisk near me. Contractors are booked up for months, stores are full, and new businesses and housing starts are everywhere. It appears that the rust belt isn’t doing as well as the south and west. I had about a 50% increase in natural gas prices last winter; this winter the price per therm is back down to near previous prices.Our electric company increased its prices 45% last June, and our water increased 25% last June.
We just got another notice from the water company that there is going to be another huge increase beginning in January.
The economy SUCKS.
It's the cumulative effect of inflation over the past 3 years that you're seeing issues with. Here we are seeing everything from 10 to 40% higher then it was in 2019. It just depends on the product.Whoever reported that is using some pretty skewed math.
If inflation was all the way up to 10%, then that would mean that his "average American family" makes substantially over $100,000 per year. But inflation is not 10%, it is more like half that, and so are average wages.
Inflation is a problem, but getting the math wrong doesn't help anyone fix it.
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It’s obviously different in different regions of the country. Business is brisk near me. Contractors are booked up for months, stores are full, and new businesses and housing starts are everywhere. It appears that the rust belt isn’t doing as well as the south and west. I had about a 50% increase in natural gas prices last winter; this winter the price per therm is back down to near previous prices.
It's the cumulative effect of inflation over the past 3 years that you're seeing issues with. Here we are seeing everything from 10 to 40% higher then it was in 2019. It just depends on the product.
Ohio has historically been a good microcosm of the rest of the US. Which is why they often use it for a test market for things.
Anyone who was already struggling to make ends meet in 2019 is really struggling now. And the old statistic that I remember hearing was 95% of the public is generally living paycheck to paycheck.
This economy does suck for about 95% of the United States. The few on here that don't believe it is sucking perhaps belong in the 5%.
Free always has a price tag that often pops up in the oddest places. Notice how we quit hauling freight by train and all goes by truck? Diesel fuel at $4 / gal and truck gets 6 mpg. Now instead of $1/mile you need at least 3 to make it work, least until the insurance bill comes in.I don’t think anyone’s saying business isn’t “brisk”. We’re saying inflation is out of control.
What is the most depressing is the last 2 years of runaway inflation is now built into the economy. Those high prices are not going away.