Ouch! Gas And Other Inflation Related Pain.

[jingle.boy]

Dad just got his tank filled for 109 gallons.  $609.90.  Crazy.

Wtf has a 109 gallon tank?

I'm pretty sure the motorhome my aunt and uncle have is in excess of 100 gallons.

Damn...

Dad just got his tank filled for 109 gallons.  $609.90.  Crazy.

Wtf has a 109 gallon tank?

Auto monthly refill.

Still confused

I'm assuming it's the tank buried in the ground for home heating.  SrShmegland prolly lives in an old fucking house.

[TAC]

Oil tank?

[King Postwhore]

250 gallon oil tank for the house. His oil company comes and refills monthly for 7 month of the year. So it only needed 109 gallons this month.

[lonestar]

Ok... We in California are completely oblivious to such things... If it drops below 40 here we're declaring an emergency.

[King Postwhore]

[ProfessorPeart]

I went out yesterday and saw nothing but $5.15 a gallon. Yeah, oil prices have mostly returned to normal, the gas companies are setting profit records, but this is totally necessary. Please.

My wife barely makes anything now because her income goes into her gas tank.

[DragonAttack]

^
Capitalism is always a beautiful thing.  The company CEOs probably had to wait during the really bad parts of the pandemic to buy that second yacht and fourth summer home......  (same with all the other price gouging money grubbers out there)

I remember the fall of '08 when gas hit $4.80 in Maryland.  My '98 Camry got around 25-30 MPG.

With inflation, that $4.80 would equal $6.37 at present.  My '05 Corolla gets between 33-40 MPG. I'm still ahead of the game, and I think I was only refilling my tank about every six weeks two years ago.   

[Cool Chris]

When gas prices are low: The price of gas is artificially low, we should be paying more!
When gas prices are high: The price of gas is artificially high, we should be paying less!

[emtee]

A jar of mayo was $7.49 yesterday. I think maybe it's time for mustard only on my sammich.

[hunnus2000]

A jar of mayo was $7.49 yesterday. I think maybe it's time for mustard only on my sammich.

Price gouging everywhere.

Make your own mayo. It's just egg and oil......

[Chino]

Choice grade New York strips are up to $16lb, and ribeyes are approaching $20lb where I'm at. FOR CHOICE!

Am heartbroken.

[lonestar]

Choice grade New York strips are up to $16lb, and ribeyes are approaching $20lb where I'm at. FOR CHOICE!

Am heartbroken.

Time to learn how to jazz up cube steak

[Chino]

Choice grade New York strips are up to $16lb, and ribeyes are approaching $20lb where I'm at. FOR CHOICE!

Am heartbroken.

Time to learn how to jazz up cube steak

I've been doing what I can with chuck, but it's just not the same. I've never heard of cube steak.

[King Postwhore]

Choice grade New York strips are up to $16lb, and ribeyes are approaching $20lb where I'm at. FOR CHOICE!

Am heartbroken.

Time to learn how to jazz up cube steak

I've been doing what I can with chuck, but it's just not the same. I've never heard of cube steak.

Pound your meat Brian.

[lonestar]

Choice grade New York strips are up to $16lb, and ribeyes are approaching $20lb where I'm at. FOR CHOICE!

Am heartbroken.

Time to learn how to jazz up cube steak

I've been doing what I can with chuck, but it's just not the same. I've never heard of cube steak.

Cube steak is a shitty pieces of round or sirloin that's passed through an industrial tenderizer. It's mainly used for chicken fried steak, and is usually as cheap as low end ground beef.

[King Postwhore]

Does RJ still have the parents tenderizer mallet from the 60's?

[El Barto]

Does RJ still have the parents tenderizer mallet from the 60's?

If he doesn't he bought one. Who doesn't own a tenderizer? A flat side for pounding cutlets and the nubby side for cubing steaks for CFS (or swiss steak).

[King Postwhore]

It's funny, I don't own one because I'm not a steak guy. Though I love chicken cutlets.

[Harmony]

I don't own a tenderizer.  I just use a rolling pin if I need to flatten a cut of meat.  I prefer using marinades and rubs to tenderize.

[lonestar]

I have mighty Mjolnir as my tenderizer, courtesy of last year's DTF Secret Santa...

[Implode]

Have you tried using it yet? I hope you liked it. 

[TAC]

We have a tenderizer.

[lonestar]

Have you tried using it yet? I hope you liked it. 

Nah...it's decorative...it's sitting with my Marvel Lego...




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[ProfessorPeart]

I'd love to know what happened yesterday. I had to go out after work and knew I needed gas. I checked Gas Buddy and everything was between $4.69 to $5.09 with most being updated roughly 2 hours prior. By the time I went out it was 4-5 hours after those updates. I drove to the $4.69 station only to find it at $5.09. I skipped it. I drive up to the others and they are all $5.55 and up.

What the heck caused this ridiculous increase? I mean, I was last out a week ago and the prices were all around $4.50. In a 7 day stretch this area went up a full dollar.

I saw no stories of refineries going up in flames or whatever. This is getting out of hand really quick. Now that I think about it, I wonder if the EU banning Ruskie oil caused this. I don't know, it is becoming too expensive to leave the house for anything. I really plan my trips now so I am not running out quite as much. A trip to and from the store for me will burn around 2 gallons. That's $10 just to run to the store. I try to keep it to a minimum now.

[XJDenton]

It's a combination of demand for petroleum massively increasing as a result of pandemic restrictions lifting and supply being restricted by the Russian War and its associated sanctions. Supply chains are f**ked in pretty much every sector, its not just oil.

[Dublagent66]

Demoncrats blaming it on the war. 

[jingle.boy]

Demoncrats blaming it on the war. 

I think they're blaming it on supply (both availability and movement), to which the war is playing a role in those.

[emtee]

471 to 4.89 here. Every day is a new record high.

[lordxizor]

Demoncrats blaming it on the war. 

I think they're blaming it on supply (both availability and movement), to which the war is playing a role in those.

The supply is pretty much fine in the US. We get most oil domestically these days, but even though the US does not depend on much Russian oil, it's a global market. The war is reducing supply in the EU, which is driving up prices worldwide.

[Grappler]

 

[El Barto]

I'd love to know what happened yesterday. I had to go out after work and knew I needed gas. I checked Gas Buddy and everything was between $4.69 to $5.09 with most being updated roughly 2 hours prior. By the time I went out it was 4-5 hours after those updates. I drove to the $4.69 station only to find it at $5.09. I skipped it. I drive up to the others and they are all $5.55 and up.

What the heck caused this ridiculous increase? I mean, I was last out a week ago and the prices were all around $4.50. In a 7 day stretch this area went up a full dollar.

I saw no stories of refineries going up in flames or whatever. This is getting out of hand really quick. Now that I think about it, I wonder if the EU banning Ruskie oil caused this. I don't know, it is becoming too expensive to leave the house for anything. I really plan my trips now so I am not running out quite as much. A trip to and from the store for me will burn around 2 gallons. That's $10 just to run to the store. I try to keep it to a minimum now.

Last two times I've filled up I saved about .30 just by hitting the stations that hadn't jacked up their prices yet. One of them rolled the signs up .35 while I was still pumping my gas. Seems there are always a few stations that lag behind the others. You'd think they'd all be controlled from the mothership somewhere, and thus all change at the same time, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

As for the refineries, that's still the problem. We've got oil. We don't have the capability to refine it all because the oil companies aren't spending money to upgrade their refineries.

Demoncrats blaming it on the war. 

I think they're blaming it on supply (both availability and movement), to which the war is playing a role in those.

Hey, hey, just blame Biden. 

[lonestar]

I'm sure the gas companies reporting quadruple the profits from last year is just a coincidence...

[Dublagent66]

Demoncrats blaming it on the war. 

I think they're blaming it on supply (both availability and movement), to which the war is playing a role in those.

The supply is pretty much fine in the US. We get most oil domestically these days, but even though the US does not depend on much Russian oil, it's a global market. The war is reducing supply in the EU, which is driving up prices worldwide.

This all started long before the war.  Of course it's a contributor now, but it's not the root cause.

[El Barto]

I'm currently paying .09 for my electricity. That's up about .02 from the previous term. When I renew in six weeks (can't now because I have no idea where I'll be living) it'll be around .23. That's a 150% increase over six months. And in this case it's not so much the general inflation happening to everybody. It's Texas's failure to fix our power supply problems, and the electricity providers making up for the money they lost when they froze us all out last year. Just last month they were predicting "rolling blackouts" because of higher demand than capacity. Gods only know what'll happen in August. The only thing we do know is that the power companies will have us by the balls, because Texas only cares about their profits and we're all expendable. They'll turn a profit if it kills every last one of us.

[lonestar]

I'm currently paying .09 for my electricity. That's up about .02 from the previous term. When I renew in six weeks (can't now because I have no idea where I'll be living) it'll be around .23. That's a 150% increase over six months. And in this case it's not so much the general inflation happening to everybody. It's Texas's failure to fix our power supply problems, and the electricity providers making up for the money they lost when they froze us all out last year. Just last month they were predicting "rolling blackouts" because of higher demand than capacity. Gods only know what'll happen in August. The only thing we do know is that the power companies will have us by the balls, because Texas only cares about their profits and we're all expendable. They'll turn a profit if it kills every last one of us.

All this applies to Pg&e as well. They were found criminally liable in the 80+ deaths of one of the fires, and forced to pay massive fines. Their response. Raise rates. The ceo makes over 50 million dollars a year.