Not Only Gas - But Virtually Everything We Buy Has Gone Up In....

[global1]

price since * took office. A visit to the grocery store is one illustration. In fact - prices have gone up - up quantities/sizes have gone down. Take a look at coffee. One pound cans are now sized down to something less than a pound and the price is higher than a pound can of coffee used to be before *. As you walk around the grocery store there are countless other examples of this type of marketing/sales ploy. Again - designed in mind by those who think us 'merikuns are stupid.

Are there any websites that track prices of consumer goods and can show the difference in prices since * took office?

That $300.00 tax rebate that *Co touted in his first term - has been eaten away so many times now - we're all in a hole.

[babylonsister]

1. This is what will get everyone's attention finally, and

guess who will be to blame?

[meegbear]

2. Hillary?

[babylonsister]

7. No, Bill.

:-)

[HockeyMom]

3. Shipping

Everything needs to be shipped from one place to another. That means GAS, lots of it. The increased costs to ship is just passed back to the consumer.

As I said on another post, I am very surprised we hear nothing about inflation. It HAS to have increased.

[tom_paine]

4. But..but...the Imperial Treasury says inflation is

You mean they are LYING?

:sarcasm:

Actually, I haven't seen so much lying since the old USSR.

[Deja Q]

5. Everything's based on oil... But I too am interested,

as I've been looking for a site that parallels oil barrel prices with gas gallon prices.

Katrina was gouging.

I think there's a little gouging going on now too.

And if laws that prevent states from selling gas at the lowest prices possible get revoked, the big chains will exterminate the small ones in no time. So much for supporting small businesses. But when's the last time a law went through that helped anybody except the large ones?

[Warpy]

10. I've been amazed by how little the price has risen

because I remember the very real gouging in the 70s. However, what we are not likely to see is a substantial price decrease.

Consider that the almighty buck is likely to slide as Stupid keeps spending like a meth head with a stolen credit card and that third world demand will keep going up. Even that long awaited "correction" in the Chinese economy is not going to drop their demand much. Trust me, they won't go back to bicycles soon.

In other words, those prices are here to stay an might even increase over the summer, especially if we have more hurricanes making landfall. Get used to them.

[kurth]

6. ExxonMobil profit is $1,142 per second

ExxonMobil, the biggest oil group, set a worldwide record in 2005 with an annual net profit of $36 BILLION.

[Harald Ragnarsson]

8. One more wrinkle. Where's Iraq's oil going?

It was supposed to pay for this "war".

It has been being pumped at the rate of 2 million barrels a day since the start of the "war".

Our gas prices have nearly doubled. In Iraq, the price they pay for gas went up, causing rioting. There are shortages of gas there.

Where is Iraq's oil, or the money from it, going? Certainly not into the reconstruction.

Our $600 million embassy being built there was paid for in less than a week. We've been in there for 3 years.

It's like it's being pumped out of the ground and into the ether. Out of sight, out of mind too, apparently.

[the other one]

9. Housing prices up the most.

Not an investment, but home-price inflation.

[TAPat]

11. 1 year ago I would spend around $120 on my

weekly "big shopping", staples, meats, etc.
My bill is now roughly $150 for the same items.
That's interesting: the increase adds up to $120 a month - that's one week of staples a year ago.
Essentially, that's like taking a week's worth of food out of my family's mouth.
Yep, the economy is just great! :grr:

[specimenfred1984]

12. The CRB Index is Way Up

It includes some energy, food and metal prices.

http://www.safehaven.com/showarticle.cfm?id=3405&pv=1

http://futures.tradingcharts.com/chart/RB/M