I live in a great little house in this very good town. Good luck to other people.

Thanks Cat! I would consider moving in with you. The thing is I have become accustom to my life style and that largely has to do with my job, so without finding another source of income or changing my habits there is a good chance that won't happen. The point is we have become accustom to paying a certain amount for something and are disappointed when it cost more or we get less, but many of us have been spoiled for so long with relatively cheap goods, food, and shelter. Most things go up in price over time, however other things go down. If you bought a TV in the 1960's it could have been $300. Now you can get a big flat screen for that. Calls on a cell phone used to be $1.00 a minute, now you can call long distances for the same as local. In the 1990's I paid $2k for a slow computer and now my phone can do more than that can. Back in the day if you wanted a pair of shoes you had to go to the local cobbler and have them made, farming was all done by hand and animals, now they can yield10x as much and use giant machines to process it. Much of the cost is involved with the volume and running on a global ecconomy, we do rely on others more than back in the day when your neighbors affected what you get. If we can afford a roof over our heads, put food on the table (even if it isn't the greatest) and still afford some extras then we are better off than many in the world. The thing is their will always be those who come out ahead, while others take the hit.

That is why I should stay in my house.

Gas, groceries, and other essentials,
have increased drastically in cost over
the past eight months.

As for taking in refugees?
Texas always ends up as ground zero
for that.
I welcome them.
But, they aren't moving in with me.

I think I have food stored for 1 year. That's it.

Working for a Texas based grocery store a lot of our customers have noticed the price of groceries are up. I have a friend from back home who is on Social Security Disability and says his monthly check doesn’t go far because of the same thing.

The way it's going it is going to be tough for sure!

Petrol prices in the UK apparently are due to it not being delivered. Lack of drivers to get it there, not lack of petrol in general. From what I gather a result of both Brexit (drivers having to go through customs again) and the pandemic.
I understand certainly areas the petrol stations were completely out of petrol!


As for gas... Shortage COULD come if the winter gets cold as storage is lower than normal. The demand has gone up as Germany is closing nuclear plants and Belgium closing coal mines. And a much higher demand from Asia.
There is a new pipeline from Russia so they could deliver more, but then it depends on what they want for it I suppose. If everyone is panicking and having shortage they can and likely will ask top dollar.

And there has been less wind in Europe so there's less storage of wind energy hence having to rely on gas. Not enough wind? Really? I'm amazed our country hasn't been blow on top of Germany, haha. Last few years we have way more wind than ever before!

From what I understand we needn't fear not having gas to cook or heat our houses at all, but the industry do get cut or something. They need another form of gas? Cooking is low calorie gas, whatever that means.
And if cost for industry goes up we will have to cough up more too.

But from what I do understand there is NO real shortage, yet. We could get a temporary shortage if we happen to get a cold winter.
So basically they're ripping us off over nothing.

And why petrol has to be so ridiculously expensive? From what Delightful said, even the UK with their shortage pays a helluva lot less per litre than we do. So why we have to pay so much is beyond me.

really

is not that happening in UK
how do you known

Yes. Everything going up, for all, even the middle class. But we have enough federal $$$ to build a half a million dollar fence around joe Biden’s vacation home in Delaware. I thought that joe didn’t believe in barriers . Par for the corse with that P.O.S

In January of 2021 the inflation was increasing at an annual rate of 1.4%
In June of 20121 the inflation was increasing at an annual rate of 5.4%

Early in 2021 House hearing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said that the recent rise in inflation is "transitory". In June Powell said during a House hearing “These effects have been larger than we expected, and they may turn out to be more persistent than we expected, but the incoming data are very much consistent with the view that these are factors that will wane over time and then inflation will move down toward our goals,”

It's SOOOOOOOOOO reassuring when I'm buying groceries and getting gasoline that a POWERFUL bureaucrat who was SO WRONG about inflation said that "incoming data" indicates inflation will "wane over time".

But there is nothing to worry about for ordinary Americans because Biden's chief of staff Ron Klain Tweeted “Most of the economic problems we’re facing (inflation, supply chains, etc.) are high class problems."

The last time I got gas there wasn't a "high class" person waiting to fill my tank........no "high class" person was waiting to pay for my groceries either.

Washington elitists are so out of touch with the reality AVERAGE people face.

Of course Washington elitist are out of touch with the average people and always will be. They only are in touch with the rich or wealthiest who can afford to contribute millions of dollars to their campaigns. I have and never will donate to any politician because none are worth it. We honestly should stop voting for them because they will never be on your side.

Have u checked out the cost of dying.

Yeah but thank God I’m insured for that 2 times over .

Yes, it's going on most other countries as well, as the same clump of satanic gangsters' good-ol'-boy network runs most countries; look how much in synchronized lock-step most countries have been with this irrational response to covid (which kills as many as the annual flu.

It’s ridiculous , every time I go in to Tesco I see prices have risen on the things I wanted to buy . Sometimes it’s like I can’t even eat properly.when I have a certain budget for that day .

Well, for one thing, diesel semitractors over ten years old aren't allowed to travel in Commefornia. They pollute, as if you didn't know that.I hope that mandate has not spread to farm tractors. If it has, not many farmers will be able to continue their livelihood. Few can afford the 100K plus outlay for a new tractor. Most of our farms operate with equipment that's 20-40 years old.I know one that just laid out 80K for a new utility tractor. No way he can farm 250 acres with just that. He has to rely on his 1980, 140 horse tractor for his major field work.That wouldn't fly in Commiefornia. What does he grow? Cabbage, sweet corn, peppers, pumpkins, green beans. If he sold out to a major corporate farm, they grow nothing but field corn, and soy beans.The produce department in your local grocery just suffers a bit more.
Isn't socialism a grand thing to behold?

I have had 2 careers in my life,1 in international logistics for 20 years. I have brought 10,000's of containers into the U.S . the current crisis in the port of L.A was a long time building.
But a few weeks ago our Secretary of Transportation. a guy who has absolutely NO experience in transportation or logistics claimed the backlog at the port was much better. down from 170 vessels to about 60. " bravo.. well done!"
well not so fast.
take a look 125 miles out to sea..over the horizon and out of site. there are over 65 ships anchored out there and more arriving each day.
they were told to park out there, giving the false impression of success in tackling this supply chain problem....if ya can't see them...they ain't there.
So for me the thing I resent the most is the insult to my intelligence. the " smoke & mirrors " trick from a administration that ran on a promise of being transparent.
All of these delay and logistical problems delay getting product to the shelves. When there is delays or transportation price increases it affects the " landed cost". When that happened to us, we ( like every other company) increased the cost to our customers, who then passed it on to the public.
And that's where we are

I have had 2 careers in my life,1 in international logistics for 20 years. I have brought 10,000's of containers into the U.S . the current crisis in the port of L.A was a long time building.
But a few weeks ago our Secretary of Transportation. a guy who has absolutely NO experience in transportation or logistics claimed the backlog at the port was much better. down from 170 vessels to about 60. " bravo.. well done!"
well not so fast.
take a look 125 miles out to sea..over the horizon and out of site. there are over 65 ships anchored out there and more arriving each day.
they were told to park out there, giving the false impression of success in tackling this supply chain problem....if ya can't see them...they ain't there.
So for me the thing I resent the most is the insult to my intelligence. the " smoke & mirrors " trick from a administration that ran on a promise of being transparent.
All of these delay and logistical problems delay getting product to the shelves. When there is delays or transportation price increases it affects the " landed cost". When that happened to us, we ( like every other company) increased the cost to our customers, who then passed it on to the public.
And that's where we are