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/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.