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I was talking to a restaurant owner in Door County and they said they recently had trouble getting plastic utensils due to diesel costs. I have no idea how those two things relate.

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Let's bring this back to current investments please.  While I'm down for interesting discussions like this, the temperature is a little high and veering a little too political for the intent of the fo

nate82
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If you put $500 into Apple on January 2nd 2008 which would have been about 70 shares.  Ignoring the dividends that happened later your $500 investment would be worth about $20,000.  Never ever ever ev

PlayerHader
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How do you continue day to day with a mindset that the future is so dark that you don't want to bring children in to it? Feels very depressing.

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6 hours ago, homer said:

I was talking to a restaurant owner in Door County and they said they recently had trouble getting plastic utensils due to diesel costs. I have no idea how those two things relate.

Plastic is made from petroleum.  My guess is that refiners who make diesel are willing to pay more for petroleum right now than companies who make plastic utensils.

Other possibility is that some independent trucking companies/drivers are being very selective about where they go and what they transport due to diesel costs.  

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Just a reminder that political conversation isn't allowed. 

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