Hutch Starskey
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Coconut oil is so much cleaner and healthier.I imagine a lot of it is profiteering. A good sign of this is our gas vendor at the hospital. We got a letter stating that the price of a delivery would go up because of fuel costs rising. Strange how that never went down when fuel costs dipped and have remained pretty consistently lower than they were. Of course the comedic thing about all of this is that Linde isn't paying retail fuel prices; they are buying it wholesale via contracts and getting discounts because of the volume they are committed to purchasing. And I'm sure the wholesale price has gone up as well. But it didn't skyrocket overnight and it sure as heck hasn't come down. Perhaps their wholesaler is screwing them the same way Linde is screwing us. But it supports your point.
The bedrock issue though is this. There is too much money chasing too few goods. We really need to get rid of all of the tariffs and start importing the shit out of everything. Today was a good example. I went to the grocery store. I don't use a lot of cooking oil--I do air frying but for baking you need some oil from time to time. So I want to go buy a small bottle of Crisco. I get there and you have your choice of canola oil, grapeseed oil, corn oil, vegetable oil, avacado oil, olive oil by the barrel. I wanted a 16 ounce bottle of Crisco. They had the gallon, the half gallon, the shortening, the shortening sticks... but not that little bottle. SO I bought Wesson. We'll see how it goes.
BTW...my pecan pie came out perfect!!!