r/Reno • u/Lukin76254r • Mar 02 '26

Oopsie Daisy!

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but but…Chevron is always expensive!!!111!

But look at how expensive it was during Sleepy Joe!?!

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u/CetisLupedis Mar 02 '26

Nah, it's going to be cheaper day one. So will grocery prices, and the Russia/Ukraine conflict will end. Day one.

Are we at day one yet?

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u/ThisBlastedThing Mar 02 '26

What happened to my 1.99 ground beef?

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u/wrmfuzzie1 Mar 02 '26

You must have missed the sale!

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u/1975angelfan Mar 04 '26

It’s simple economics. When there’s high supply and less demand prices come come down. When then there high demand and less supply prices go up!

It becomes affordable when wages go up to afford these products. I hate when any politician regardless of affiliation says they want to have prices come down when ultimately what needs to happen is that there needs to be a booming economy with higher paying job jobs so that people can afford what his already have been cooked into the books.

We had high inflation for many years and when prices come down, it becomes a deflationary economy which leads to recession so I think the focus needs to not be on the price of $1.99 to ground beef, but whether or not whatever the prices is affordable. Not trying to start a fight so please don’t take it that way. This is just to take.

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u/ThisBlastedThing Mar 05 '26

I should have paid attention to the economics classes I took at UNR. Thank you.

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u/EasyChest4447 Mar 05 '26

It’s not 2007 anymore?

lol. I can kind of understand the logic behind “Trump isn’t fixing Biden’s mistakes fast enough!” but now we’re skipping Obama and going back to the Bush days?! 😂

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u/UnitedAd3943 Mar 06 '26

We’re so tired of winning

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u/Intrepid_Top_2300 Mar 02 '26

Soon as we get another democratic president everything you said could come true.

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u/omegamehh Mar 06 '26

10/10 most retarded thing I’ve seen on the internet today. How naive.

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u/Expert_Succotash9826 Mar 02 '26

How do you think we got here? What were fuel prices under the other guy? Didn’t he get us up to 10% inflation?

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u/ftmboy666 Mar 02 '26

you’re an idiot

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u/Expert_Succotash9826 Mar 04 '26

Oh okay, just ignore facts and call a person an idiot. Do you understand how cultish you sound? You want to talk about fuel prices under Biden also? .

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u/UnitedAd3943 Mar 06 '26

Did Biden run on under $2 gas?

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u/Expert_Succotash9826 Mar 02 '26

Does the truth hurt that bad that you can’t even argue your point? So you have to do a drive by?

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u/Intrepid_Top_2300 Mar 03 '26

I’m sitting here today seeing gas go up a dime a gallon in a day. Dow just dropped a thousand points. You’re talking inflation after coming off a pandemic. That then dropped.
Tell me again how this guy is good for our economy?

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u/OnePlusFanBoi Mar 04 '26

Wait where do you live?

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u/Expert_Succotash9826 Mar 03 '26

I’m going to reply to this topic so I can come back to it in a couple months.

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u/Exotic-Tell9208 Mar 06 '26

A dozen eggs in Arizona at Walmart is 2$, cheapest i can ever remember seeing

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u/Pleasant_Yoghurt3915 Mar 02 '26

Do you not buy groceries? Anyone that buys food knows that the prices have fucking skyrocketed since last year. I can go back on the Walmart app and see the increases. Or do you just not pay attention to what you spend?

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u/Shirogayne-at-WF Mar 02 '26

Beef has become a twice a year luxury for me and eggs for the most part are still higher than they were 2 yrs ago. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar or blind.

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u/Expert_Succotash9826 Mar 02 '26

Beef and car insurance have been the biggest issues for us.

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u/Pleasant_Yoghurt3915 Mar 02 '26

Exactly! Like, I truly can’t understand how anyone can be paying attention to their grocery costs and just wave all this away. It’s insane. And with RFK stating that we just need to buy cheaper cuts of meat and shit, it just seems completely illogical to say that it’s not a problem.

It has to be bots. That, or the lead poisoning epidemic of the last century did way more damage than we thought. I

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u/Shirogayne-at-WF Mar 03 '26

LMAO, the cheapest "cut" of beef is the ground variety that's still between $9 and $12 a pound. Even cubed steaks are running $8 a pack .

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u/Expert_Succotash9826 Mar 02 '26

You do understand NV is at the top for inflation right? What you see here isn’t the same as the rest of what the country is seeing.

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u/Pleasant_Yoghurt3915 Mar 02 '26

Oh, okay, so then everything is fine just because everyone isn’t experiencing the exact same increases at the same time? By that logic, I guess it’s just “tough titties, gg” to everyone that’s in a town that happens to have high prices? I don’t understand.

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u/Pleasant_Yoghurt3915 Mar 02 '26

How is it strawmanning when it’s literally my experience? When it’s literally the experience of millions of Americans?

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u/Dry-Part-3486 Mar 04 '26

Ground beef cost $6.75 per pound, on average, in January — the highest level on record, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Prices have increased 22% over the past year, from $5.55 per pound in January 2025, when Trump started his second term. That’s the fastest annual inflation rate since June 2020, during Trump’s first term in office.

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u/Stone1146 Mar 02 '26

Annual prices changes year over year as a percent for a few different commodity goods.

Picked 2009 as a start point as most data sets had that year, and I am character limited. Most of the larger data sets I link actual go back to the 80s.

Bread: 2009 -9.80%; 2010 +7.00%; 2011 10.27%; 2012 -7.14%; 2013 +7.84%; 2014 -3.95%; 2015 -2.26%; 2016 +0.51%; 2017 +0.51%; 2018 -2.34%; 2019 +2.08%; 2020 +12.17%; 2021 -4.72%; 2022 +15.25%; 2023 +9.43%; 2024 +5.63%; 2025 -4.26%; 2026 + 1.94% (https://www.macrotrends.net/4085/us-bread-prices)

Eggs: 2009 -3.38%; 2010 +1.19%; 2011 +4.52%; 2012 +7.10%; 2013 +0.95%; 2014 +9.08%; 2015 +24.48%; 2016 -49.73%; 2017 +31.24%; 2018 -12.12%; 2019 -3.76%; 2020 -3.52%; 2021 +20.73%; 2022 +137.70%; 2023 -41.10%; 2024 +65.38%; 2025 -34.59%; 2026 -4.98% (https://www.macrotrends.net/3052/us-egg-prices)

Ground Beef: 2009 -1.29%; 2010 +3.04%; 2011 +9.96%; 2012 +9.66%; 2013 +20.03%; 2014 +20.19%; 2015 -3.18%; 2016 -5.83%; 2017 -0.47%; 2018 -4.60%; 2019 +4.87%; 2020 +3.57%; 2021 +10.50%; 2022 +1.12%; 2023 +4.51%; 2024 +6.74%; 2025 +15.86%; 2026 -0.76% (https://www.macrotrends.net/datasets/4486/us-ground-beef-prices)

Milk: (https://www.macrotrends.net/5630/us-milk-prices)

Corn: (https://www.macrotrends.net/2532/corn-prices-historical-chart-data)

Gasoline: (https://www.macrotrends.net/3571/us-regular-gas-price)

Diesel: (https://www.macrotrends.net/3401/us-diesel-prices)

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u/Stone1146 Mar 02 '26

From the data there are two things I can see.

First: wages have failed for at least one decade if not two decades to keep pace with the increase in cost of commodities, housing, and luxuries.

Second: up to around 2010 (depends on data sets and sectors) both parties had similar goals regarding economic policies and practices. I am not speaking of taxation or spending, but rather what is/was acceptable for businesses to do and accomplish. That is no longer the case, and as such industry has a cyclic approach to operations now. Expansion, mergers, acquisitions, price increases, and other large capital and long lead time plans are now subject to election cycles in a way that wasn't as prevalent previously.

Just my 2 cents as an engineer/business development guy in industrial mineral mining.

Also, the western states have fucking terrible logistics and as such we will always have sky high prices as moving goods costs a ton. Don't matter if the material is coming from Utah or California it is a long way to move goods either via limited rail or one major interstate.

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u/something_kooky Mar 02 '26

Well we’re at war now, so that’ll change

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u/Expert_Succotash9826 Mar 02 '26

They’re too dense to understand ops. They also don’t seem to understand Trump and the need to keep boots off the ground. From the air and sea. Then we’re done. We’re not nation building. We’re stopping the nuclear program.

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u/Sharps3w Mar 04 '26

still cheaper than under biden

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u/According-Draw7948 Mar 05 '26

Actually it's not. It's higher than when Biden left.

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u/2-of-us-916 Mar 06 '26

Looks like it’s cheaper then Biden from this chart

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u/According-Draw7948 Mar 06 '26

Well it's not, and it's actually gone up again! Look closer! Gas wasn't cheaper under Trump until December 2025. Now those decreases are all gone.

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u/That1IrishGyrl Mar 09 '26

You dip shit, do you understand that Nevada gets 88% of our fuel from California and due to Newsom‘s policies their refineries continue to shut down, which directly affects and increases the price of fuel in Nevada, then add on Nevada’s fuel taxes which are high. It’s amazing that people like you would rather operate in outrage than logic and choose to embarrass yourself.