No Rotella at 4 area Walmarts. Had to buy Mobil oil. No 4606 fuel filters at several parts stores and the dealer had to order it in. Maybe I shouldn't recycle the old oil in case I need it again. Routine maintenance becomes an all day job with all the running around. smh Let's go, Joe.

 

Apparently Rotella is nearly impossible to get anywhere. I just went through the same thing. Maybe instead of purchasing close to time of planned change, I should just get it when I see it and deal with finding room to store it....

 

Oil, batteries, everything.

 

dang, I should have bought those last two jugs of Mobil as well. I change oil almost every month. This could put me out of business.

 

I got some TP if anyone wants to trade. Dang One-Party People are succeeding in destroying our economy.

 

I ordered Rotella from Walmart online. Took 2wks to get it but I did get it. I ordered 16 jugs just because I figured the stock was getting low since my (2) local Walmart store didn't have any on the shelf.

I run the Rotella in my 97 PSD's...BUT the same issue with DELO that I run in my 06 F350...ordered it online from Walmart and the delivery is like 4wks now!!

Let's go Brandon!!!!!!!!!!

What a joke this president is!!!! Don't get me started guys, I CAN'T!!!!

 

Same here in Kalifornia. Walmart had no 5W-40 anything, Napa had nothing except some $45/gal german oil, O'Reillys had 3-gallons Rotella @$31/each so I sucked it up and purchased. Walmart did have multiple Motorcraft filters and they were still $20/each. $150 oil change! Ouch!

Anyone considered running 15W-40 instead of 5W-40? My truck now lives in the garage and it rarely gets below 35F here in the winter. I'm considering as Walmart had a ton of 15W-40 Delo in stock.

 

Here Socal I was at the local Walmart and they had 1 jug of the 15w40 and a couple of 2.5 gallon super tech 15w40, and the was it for diesel oil.

 

US is actually consuming less gasoline in 2021 than it did in 2019 (yet they've been gouging you). Prices got hammered yesterday on the futures markets and will fall in 2022.............

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=50396

Joe is a car guy (Chevy), his dad was a used car salesman (Chevrolet) but his spinal arthritis and foot injury may preclude him from changing oil.

Actually, automotive supply chain issues are multi-faceted and both parties have equally contributed to the problem to some degree, but the underlying problem is CORPORATE AMERICA decisions over the past 20-30 years to outsource, foreign source, curtail CAPEX (capital expenditures), flat line labor costs (only 15% real wage growth over the past ten years) , reduce inventories (e.g. Just in Time) to meet their quarterly margins, numbers --- from Wall Street pressure.

The real problem we have is Debt Monetization by the Federal Reserve / US Treasury -- they printed out of thin air $3.2T last year (under Trump) and (projected) $3.6T this year (under Biden) -- this money printing is highly inflationary. US spends $7T annually , takes in $3.5T in tax receipts, prints the rest in funny money---- exploding the US' Money Supply (M3) -- which has doubled just in the past 24 months.

 

The toilet swirl has been gaining momentum for decades.

 

"his dad was a used car salesman"

It all makes sense.now

"The real problem we have is Debt Monetization"

My solution, although I'm sure there's some details to work out:

Eliminate federal taxes. America saves the expense of the IRS, most of the accountants, and all the time we waste doing our taxes. We don't have the government's nose in our business.

Instead, every year, just print the money that Congress budgets. In theory, the dollar devalues and costs each citizen in proportion to how much money they have - rich people lose more, poor people less. In reality, if the world values our currency and keeps the exchange rates the same, they paid our taxes. No more bothering with those massive debt payments.

In truth, the feds do that now, as F350 describes, except they give the money to Wall Street and pay Wall Street interest on the money they gave them.

Additional MAJOR benefit, the benefit that because we lack is ruining our country: each citizen has a direct and immediate consequence of voting for the pols who vote to spend more money. Today, the pols diffuse, bury, and hide their profligate spending from the lower and middle classes with infinitely complex tax rules that let idiots believe they're not paying for new "benefits."

Today, many of our financial decisions are based on the consequences of taxation - it distorts the markets (housing for ex).

Idiots don't understand that taxes just don't mean much to rich people, other than what they should mean to all of us - throwing money down an government black hole. Most of their income isn't "earned," it's from investment returns. Those returns factor in taxes up front. Corporations don't pay taxes, they only pass them through from the increased prices they charge us for their goods and services. And, the bottom line for the wealthy - it doesn't matter what the actual amount of money is they have; it only matters that they have more than us. They have so much money it doesn't matter; they're in it for the power. If everyone has a dollar and they have a thousand is no different to them if we all have a thousand dollars and they have a million.

 

There have been no shortages here in Texas. What gives?

 

prolific printing

 

Just flip that chart upside down to see the value of the dollar. Gold had been pretty steady around 1200-1300 for some time, now around 1800 over the last 2. I have had very little money in savings for the last 5-7 years. The market ain’t up like it appears.

There’s some major changes that need to be made in this country, but there’s not enough common sense to make that happen. I’m not sure “We, the people” is relevant any more.

 

It isn't with many, but will still continue to fight for it. The major change will only come about as men stand up, like they have had to in all history when tyranny wants to rule.