Your not alone in the US, jolly Old England is quite a mess depending who you talk to being the have's or have nots. Would love to buy land go off grid, but that's nearly impossibly expensive. Some people are still getting rich but not a lot of the producers.

I know what you mean. It's extremely frustrating.

Yes, this "3% inflation" is terrible for people on a fixed income. I'm 75 and the good news is we saw it coming and paid our house off 20 years ago so at least we have a place to camp. Living with less is fine for us but that's no way to run a Country. A n abundant supply of reliable inexpensive energy is key, and we're trying to destroy that.

I agree completely this world is really messed up now,and I don't think it's going to get any better anytime soon

Husky oil is 30 bucks a gallon here in pa

I used to buy bar oil for 3.99 a gal at bi mart. My wife and i paid our house off last year and we feel no relief. Grocery bill has replaced our mortgage it seems like. Im self employed tree service and we are seeing fewer customers. Its a shame.

Buy it by the barrel from a distributor

Speaking of inflation: THOSE are many of the reasons why I have the land that mom n dad paid off many years ago. I’m NOT going to sell it! If I had children then it’d go to them, but alas I don’t. I’m paying rent to the gooberment in the form of property taxes on something that was purchased 51 years ago. So I’m just using it as my off grid home. It’s come in very handy since my wife told me to “go away”, so I did. My only “nicety” is my wood stove. It provides heat, a way to make coffee, AND it provides a place for me to cook. The absolute hardest part at my age is NOT having AC, but I’ll “somehow” manage, even if it makes me a “better” person. 😅

Inflation is actually 35 or higher on every item. From what I've seen

Lived thru late 1970's inflation, which was lightweight compared to today. Going to Mc Donalds to buy a Big Mac for $18.00

Buckle up and be prepared to work till the day you die. We will see 75 year old nurses and other professionals working because they do not have any other choice. You watch!

Stock market is highest it's ever been. Real wages having risen more in the last few years than in the last 30. Unemployment is below 4%. So in actuality the economy is red hot. That's why they have upped interest rates. To cool the economy to stabilize inflation. And your right it will take a while for this to cool off. But look at your conglomerate corporations. They are making more profits than ever the last few years. So a lot of the inflation is driven by corporations trying to please shareholders. Since there is reduced competition because of all these massive companies. Prices go up and up. We've not enforced monopoly laws really at all in the last 40 years. Covid was just an excuse for the huge companies to raise prices. Citing supply constraints. Cheap gas is over. If gas goes to 2 bucks. Then all these oil producers in the US will go under. Then gas will still go back up. OPEC operates like a cartel. But we as people need to consume less. That will drive prices back down. But there doesn't seem to be any slowdown and people buying $80,000 trucks and just otherwise throw money in every direction I don't even know how they do it but as long as people keep doing that then prices will continue to go up.