"C & E" wrote in message
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"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
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"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in message
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"Jack" wrote in message

Sure, lots of reasons. What is paint thinner made from? What fuel is
used to transport it? What fuel is used to keep the store heated?
What is
selling for $100 a barrel?

Crude at $100 is up around 70 percent, but paint thinner at $ 8 then
is up around 400 percent. Looks like greed and gouging to me at that
rate.

There may be a bit of gouging, but that 70% applies to the cost of
everything involved in making and transporting the mineral sprits also.
Add fuel surcharges, heat, lighting, year end bonus for the CEO of
Lowes, it all adds up.

I deal with shipping grocery products as part of my job. Cases of liquids
like cooking oil can't be stacked as high in the truck as stuff like
cereal or paper towels, to use two examples at the other extreme. So,
across-the-board shipping cost increases have a greater affect on
products that don't occupy the space in the trailer to its fullest
capacity.


Thanks, Joe. That's a component that had never occured to me. Life is
full of facts which help to tie ends together.



It's simple math, really. If freight from point A to point B costs $1000.00
and you have 1000 cases on the truck, freight per case is a buck. Halve the
number of cases, and now the freight is two bucks per case. Obviously, this
doesn't explain the huge price jump that Paul mentioned. But, it explains
some of it. Fuel costs also impact the delivery of raw materials to the
manufacturer, as well as Home Despot's cost to bring product from warehouse
to store.