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Lets say you stockpile as much or more than you need. Say a thousand gallons of gas and/or diesel.

Lets say you buy the diesel at $5.50/gal.

It rises to $6 after a season.

You sell to neighbors and people in your community at below the new current price. Say $5.75

You then go out and use this $5.75, to subsidize the cost of buying the more expensive gas or diesel.

Effectively, by undercutting the gas stations locally, you have provided cheaper gasoline to your neighbors, who will have effectively subsidized the cost of your your current gas purchases.

You won't make a profit in the "strict" sense, even though you're selling above your original cost, but thats not the purpose of this.

Instead, you will be that much more inflation-proof having done this.

This is not financial advice. I am not a financial advisor.

it's more like preparedness advice.

Lets say you stockpile as much or more than you need. Say a thousand gallons of gas and/or diesel. Lets say you buy the diesel at $5.50/gal. It rises to $6 after a season. You sell to neighbors and people in your community at *below* the new current price. Say $5.75 You then go out and use this $5.75, to subsidize the cost of buying the more expensive gas or diesel. Effectively, by undercutting the gas stations locally, you have provided cheaper gasoline to your neighbors, who will have effectively subsidized the cost of your *your* current gas purchases. You won't make a profit in the "strict" sense, even though you're selling above your original cost, but thats not the purpose of this. Instead, you will be that much more inflation-proof having done this. This is not financial advice. I am not a financial advisor. it's more like preparedness advice.

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[–] • 0 pt 2y

Storing for oneself, I can see, storing to sell at a slight markup, while still buying, seems ludicrous.

You buy at 5.50. You sell at 5.75, when all the stations are selling at $6 six months later. Everyone you offer to buys from you for the extra $0.25/gal. You have just effectively reduced your current fuel purchases to 0.25/gal for yourself given the money from your fuel sales.

Is it that ludicrous after all?

[–] • 0 pt 2y

You didnt reduce your fuel price to 25c a gallon.

You still paid the initial 5.50 for the gallon. ok you got 5.75, so you have 25c profit, the new cost of 6$ fuel, is 5.75, yes the quarter profit you made is applied for this.

Now your attempting to obfuscate this loss of the initial 5.50... by saying my current cost is 25c... You've stil eaten the cost of the 5.50, from the initial purchase.

Now for that 25c profit, which should just be 50c savings, if you just bought for yourself.

How much did the cost of the storage take? How much time are you investing in maintaining and rotating fuel? How much effort are you expending for that 25c?

I am sure you can find a more profitable way to make 25c/gal with that amount of time, and seed money.

If you want to protect yourself from inflation, the only way to do it is to bring in more income.

[–] • 1 pt 2y

Now your attempting to obfuscate this loss of the initial 5.50... buy saying my current cost is 25c... You've stil eaten the cost of the 5.50, from the initial purchase. Now for that 25c profit, which should just be 50c savings, if you just bought for yourself.

God damn, you're right. I must be more tired or more tarded than I thought.

[–] • 1 pt 2y

Hell, at the rate the world is moving. Store drinking water. Its gonna be more valuable.

With 6 months of food stored, thats my next storage task. It just takes so much damn room.