'We must pass this on to consumers'
As expected by many in the WWO community, businesses scrambled this week to increase prices of goods, seeking to recoup costs of transporting products with ever more expensive oil. "We have held the line and absorbed as much as we can," a representative for the supermarket industry said. "Now prices have to rise." Now I work in a grocery store, I can tell you for a fact that they are already way up. I put on the new price labels myself.
The price increases sure made the 'victory garden' idea a popular topic of conversation around here, and elsewhere too, it seems.
CRIME STORIES
While the TV people are talking about the violence, they're missing the real story: gas thefts. Which are happening all over, even here. What do you expect when a bit of rubber tube and a prybar can get you $90 in about 10 minutes? Combined with people getting hammered by prices?
SHORTAGES
I saw a newspaper story about the possibility of shortages. 'Possibility'? Here in my little town the tanker truck was 3 days late last week, our gas pumps were closed for 2. We asked the driver and he told us not to count on next week either. He just shook his head. Shortages already here, people.
QUESTION: HOW MUCH TIME IS THE OIL CRISIS COSTING YOU EVERY WEEK?
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