Why the cost increase?


I went to buy materials for a speaker project. I also priced some T-111 siding on 8" centers, 5/8 thick, Ship lap.
I hadn’t picked up any sheets or anything in over 18 months.

48" x 96 x 5/8 wood siding was 19-26.00 and on sale 15-20.00 per sheet, NOW 74-84.00 per sheet.

MDF 3/4" 48 x 96" if you can find it. 45-55.00 per sheet it was 22.00 to 27.00 per sheet.

2x4x8 DF stud grade 1.99-3.00 per. Now 4-6.00 per stud,

There is no shortage but there sure is a LOT of price gouging. NOTHING changed. Just the price..

The quality is worse. The workers aren’t paid worth a crap...Why the increase?

I’m getting ready to finish my home out. WOW.. I might have to rethink this a bit..

The price all most tripled in 12-18 months.. This kind of stuff is NOT cool at ALL.

Just my opinion of course. Any projects you’re doing get put on hold or STOPED?

YES I’m very frugal. Money never came easy, and it leaves the same way..

oldhvymec
Science? In Australia last week a health minister read off the following shocking statistic as if it didn’t matter: 140 out of 141 patients hospitalized had been fully vaccinated. 5 out of 4 in ICU were fully vaccinated. CDC documents show 35k cases a week among fully vaccinated. Blood analysis shows the vaccine does not stay intramuscular (as other vaccines do) but immediately starts rising in blood, reaching alarmingly high levels in the ovaries. (The chart is eye-popping.) The CDC has finally admitted it causes myocarditis in pediatric patients. Pediatric means under 18 by the way. Myocarditis in this population is rare. So it shows up easily, and became so obvious the CDC was finally forced to admit it. No scientific reason to think myocarditis is not also happening in older patients, just hasn’t been studied scientifically.

More science? ALL viruses become LESS lethal over time. Simply put viruses, in order to survive, require a host. Kill the host and you kill your reproduction. That simple.

That is the science. I could go on. Why bother? No one interested in actual science. Only like to use the word, never the thing itself.

Case in point, key features of the scientific approach are logic, reason, methodology. The subject of this thread was inflation. From price inflation it has veered off into viruses. Without hardly anyone along the way seriously addressing the actual, you know, subject. Like I said, love to use the word. Really wish more would Just Do It instead.
If you don’t want people to "hit you with a bunch or political crap", why oh why, did you do it yourself, to others with the statement that those on the left didn’t want to get it because of their opinions of the Administration in power, when that is an outright lie meant to deflect what lots are doing now, for that very same reason?

Talk about projection. Get your facts straight.

And yes, you do have the right not to get vaccinated but you don’t have the right to infect others. Anyone notice the rates of vaccinations going up in red states now that their jobs, schools and local businesses are mandating it. They wouldn’t let the gubement do it but when it came to their pocket books, they’re lining up like kids at a Chucky Cheese, or better yet, like those pharmacies handing out Oxy.

All the best,
Nonoise
I love how Miller Carbon claims 5 out of 4 patience in ICU were fully vaccinated. Idiot. 
Agreed. A cursory check on his stats shows nothing of the sort. Some of his numbers looked to be borrowed from actual reporting and then fudged, like he always does.

Here's where he probably stole the numbers for the base of his lies:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-25/nsw-records-141-local-covid-19-cases/100321564
And here are the real numbers from Australia:
https://www.health.gov.au/news/health-alerts/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-health-alert/coronavirus-covid-19-case-numbers-and-statistics

And as for his citing of all the cases of those breakthrough infections, the last I read was literally a handful (<5) requiring hospitalization and the rest just had minor symptoms. The vaccine works as intended.

Some links would be nice to go along with those claims.

All the best,
Nonoise
@nonoise WHATEVER!
Not playing.
We all know where you stand. And frankly could careless.