Supply chains and Work shortages

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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,623
     A popular Middle Eastern/Lebanese restaurant just posted a gas card give away on their adbook page. Reason they did it was due to the full tank of gas siphoned from the catering vehicle overnight.

    You guys might want to get locking fuel caps.Waiting to pick mine up at a Napa. Have a Ram 1500 with 26gal tank. with fuel being what it is today, spending the $16 for the cap is a smal price to pay when a fill up from 1/2 tank tops north of $50....
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  • static111
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    mickeyrat said:
     A popular Middle Eastern/Lebanese restaurant just posted a gas card give away on their adbook page. Reason they did it was due to the full tank of gas siphoned from the catering vehicle overnight.

    You guys might want to get locking fuel caps.Waiting to pick mine up at a Napa. Have a Ram 1500 with 26gal tank. with fuel being what it is today, spending the $16 for the cap is a smal price to pay when a fill up from 1/2 tank tops north of $50....
    Or I could just buy a gun and Stand My Ground by protecting my Gas property, then people will know not to Suck My Gas!
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  • brianlux
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    tempo_n_groove said:
    I would love to buy a new 4runner.  Have you seen the prices?

    I'll wait.  Thanks.
    Yeah, new 4-Runners are what. like $65K?   Yeow!
    How about used prices?  They're insane!  My wife has a 1999 4-runner with something like 260,000 miles on it.  Considering the upgrades on the cooling system and transmission for towing her little Casita trailer, she could easily get $10K for it, maybe as much as 12 to 15K.  That's just crazy.
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  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,909
    90s 4runner's are great for wheeling.  They're also 20+ years old, so finding them in good shape is getting harder.

    I keep looking for a pre 2004 Tacoma for going exploring (Before they started supersizing tacomas).  They're so hard to find them with lower km's and in good shape.  They go for a lot when they pop up.

    Right now I'm rocking my 2007 Ranger 4x4.  It has low km's so I'll probably keep it for a while.   Might replace it with a Maverick when it gets too old.  Every other truck is massive, expensive, and guzzles gas :(
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,537
    Zod said:
    90s 4runner's are great for wheeling.  They're also 20+ years old, so finding them in good shape is getting harder.

    I keep looking for a pre 2004 Tacoma for going exploring (Before they started supersizing tacomas).  They're so hard to find them with lower km's and in good shape.  They go for a lot when they pop up.

    Right now I'm rocking my 2007 Ranger 4x4.  It has low km's so I'll probably keep it for a while.   Might replace it with a Maverick when it gets too old.  Every other truck is massive, expensive, and guzzles gas :(
    Just buy the pre Tacomas.  The SV5's.  They run forever.  For whatever reason I have seen caravans of them being towed down to Mexico.  They must love them down there.
  • Halifax2TheMax
    Halifax2TheMax Posts: 42,439
    Damn you Brandon! It’s ALL your fault!

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  • Zod
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    A few things on that:

    I would expect inflation to inflate profits over time.  Because everything eventually goes up.  The input costs, the labour costs, and the cost the good is sold out.  If you aim for a 15% or 20% profit margin.  20% of 100 is going to be more than 20% of 90 kind of thing.

    The other one is there isn't an infinite supply of goods.  The question would be, if the price of gas was lower, or the price of other goods lower, is enough being manufactured to meet what the demand is at a lower price point.

    None of this is pleasant, but the world does have a finite supply of resources and goods that can be produced, so I do feel that plays a part in everything.  People generally assume if the money was in the hands of plebs everyone would have more stuff, but I don't generally think it works like that.
  • nicknyr15
    nicknyr15 Posts: 9,279
    Load up on tampons fellas and be a hero to your significant other. 
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,537
    OK.  I had mentioned on how I count the ships waiting in the harbor to get unloaded out by the beach by me.

    Yesterday I counted the most I ever had.  23 ships in waiting.  Most previous to that was like 16 I believe.

    That is a whole lot of inflated pricing of products that will be on the shelves soon.  Products that may not be sold and cause a price dip hopefully?
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,537
    Can we talk about oil and gas prices?

    Why do people still think that Biden caused inflation and the high gas prices?!?
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,623
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Can we talk about oil and gas prices?

    Why do people still think that Biden caused inflation and the high gas prices?!?

    because fox news said so?
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  • tempo_n_groove
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    mickeyrat said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Can we talk about oil and gas prices?

    Why do people still think that Biden caused inflation and the high gas prices?!?

    because fox news said so?
    Is that where they are getting this from?  I would guess from Hannity or Tucker, not the news part though?
  • static111
    static111 Posts: 5,113
    edited June 2022
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Can we talk about oil and gas prices?

    Why do people still think that Biden caused inflation and the high gas prices?!?
    Because they don't want to blame capitalism and the big oil companies that lobby and bankroll their favorite candidates.? On another note, I predict that freezing the federal gas tax of $.18 will just see the oil companies raise the price of oil correspondingly and thus create more profits for their stockholders, free rent!...good grief.  Price gouging is happening and just because the cost of a barrel of oil is up doesn't correspond with the whole record profits thing.  
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  • tempo_n_groove
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    static111 said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Can we talk about oil and gas prices?

    Why do people still think that Biden caused inflation and the high gas prices?!?
    Because they don't want to blame capitalism and the big oil companies that lobby and bankroll their favorite candidates.? On another note, I predict that freezing the federal gas tax of $.18 will just see the oil companies raise the price of oil correspondingly and thus create more profits for their stockholders, free rent!...good grief.  Price gouging is happening and just because the cost of a barrel of oil is up doesn't correspond with the whole record profits thing.  
    I have to double check but I believe we were producing the same amount of oil for the past few years?  I know we had a peak of 14 million barrels at one time.
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,599
    the only thing not increasing in price is bananas. which is...well....bananas. 
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  • HughFreakingDillon
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    tempo_n_groove said:
    mickeyrat said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Can we talk about oil and gas prices?

    Why do people still think that Biden caused inflation and the high gas prices?!?

    because fox news said so?
    Is that where they are getting this from?  I would guess from Hannity or Tucker, not the news part though?
    idiot conservatives trying everything to blame everything on biden.  "Bidinflation". they're either incredibly stupid or disingenuous. 

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  • Halifax2TheMax
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    HughFreakingDillon said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    mickeyrat said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Can we talk about oil and gas prices?

    Why do people still think that Biden caused inflation and the high gas prices?!?

    because fox news said so?
    Is that where they are getting this from?  I would guess from Hannity or Tucker, not the news part though?
    idiot conservatives trying everything to blame everything on biden.  "Bidinflation". they're either incredibly stupid or disingenuous. 

    Or both and have been for quite some time.
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  • cutz
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    edited June 2022
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Can we talk about oil and gas prices?

    Why do people still think that Biden caused inflation and the high gas prices?!?
    I read an AP story yesterday and here's what they report:

    In Hong Kong & Norway you can pay over $10.00 a Gallon

    In Germany it can be around $7.50 and in France about $8.00 a Gallon

    Is that, any, U. S. Presidents fault too?
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  • Merkin Baller
    Merkin Baller Posts: 12,818
    I had a customer on the phone yesterday remark to me how nothing will happen about inflation until we get a new administration. 

    I was too tired to ask him what a new administration would be able to do about a global problem. 




    I'm so fucking tired
  • tempo_n_groove
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    cutz said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Can we talk about oil and gas prices?

    Why do people still think that Biden caused inflation and the high gas prices?!?
    I read an AP story yesterday and here's what they report:

    In Hong Kong & Norway you can pay over $10.00 a Gallon

    In Germany it can be around $7.50 and in France about $8.00 a Gallon

    Is that, any, U. S. Presidents fault too?
    Merkin Baller said:
    I had a customer on the phone yesterday remark to me how nothing will happen about inflation until we get a new administration. 

    I was too tired to ask him what a new administration would be able to do about a global problem. 




    I'm so fucking tired
    Amen.

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