I wonder how much of the inflation is really caused by energy. Your supermarket's enormous utility bill has probably gone up as much as your house utility bill. A gallon of milk weighs 10 lbs, and it's very expensive to transport, so are fruits/veggies which are mostly water. Those fuel surcharges by Fedex and UPS seem to have become permanent. Airfare increases have also been driven by higher energy costs. My friend owns a restaurant and said his utility bill is up big from a couple of yrs ago. but ya, there's no way inflation is just 2-3%
Inflation is MUCH higher than the Gummint reports. They are manipulating our behavior by constantly lying about it.
What's funny is people bitch about the price of gasoline when it's pre-tax price is at about parity with milk. Milk unlike fossil fuel is reoccurring. Milk comes from a cow in Wisconsin. Gasoline is cracked in a refinery after being transported from Arabia where it's drilled miles below the desert sand. And to think there're guy's bearish on oil.... That aside inflation is massive.