Sticker Shock?

[Jim Frye]

Jim Frye
I stopped into the local hardware store today to pick up a gallon of mineral spirits and had a bit of a shock. The price had gone up since the last gallon. Two years ago, it was $14.99. Today the same brand of the same product was $21.99. The store owner said the Ohio EPA passed a law requiring a substitute version for the traditional MS and the price for regular MS jumped. He said customer feedback to him was that the new stuff was worthless.

[cwsmith]

Isn't everything we buy today significantly higher?

CWS

[leehljp]

I feel sticker shock at most things now. I ran into the sticker shock for mineral spirits last year. And yes, I tried a quart of the makeshift mineral spirits too, and did not like it. After that I bought a quart of regular MS at about $10 for a quart!

[LCHIEN]

Oil prices just topped $100 per barrel. Not going to help.