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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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[–] • 1 pt 2y (edited 2y)

Regarding our last conversation... Price targets were on track as you said. We hit 4.79 then the target price of was skipped all together with a couple ~20¢ price jumps. What are your thoughts on this?

Whats happening, as far as I can tell is, when you see regular increases, and then three, four, five, or more days in a row of virtually no movement, it's because the markets have been given an undisclosed temporary moratorium to allow for public adjustment to the new prices. I'm working this into my current projections, but for example, this was my latest, which I had intended to post but ended up busy:

https://pic8.co/sh/HebXlr.png

Just a day off the mark, and a cock-hair off the price by a few tenths.

Edit: If the underlying assumptions are correct, then there should be occasional random 'snap backs' when the industry internal pricing, and the public facing (false) prices diverge too much for the market to tolerate.

[–] • 0 pt 2y

5.19 https://pic8.co/sh/gOjDJ3.jpg

Was 4.99 yesterday. 4.69 one week ago. Something is up. Prices are jumping faster than normal.

[–] • 1 pt 2y

Was 4.99 yesterday. 4.69 one week ago. Something is up. Prices are jumping faster than normal.

War probably.

The articles on russia (as told by u.s. glowies Rping independent news sources) claiming "the u.s. is trying to bleed russia dry in a war of attrition", turned out to be more projection.

It was u.s. intel telling us that russia was bleeding the u.s. dry .

Ballsy fucking move given the comparative apparent strengths, but they have insider information that we don't.

War is whats up. Because the u.s. finally realized it can't risk the house of cards continuing to fight a losing proxy war.

Guess russia finally called our bluff.

It'll be interesting to see if we actually respond this time, or do what we usually do, which is double down.

Gas prices might of course just be the summer jump, or credit markets shitting themselves, or profit-taking ahead of demand destruction.