I don't know if any of you can believe it. But I am shocked at the at the at the additional cost of the vehicles. I have to travel. And I have to rent a car. Not for very long, just for a couple days. And I was shocked at what it cost me to rent a car. I don't rent many cars; I will tell you that. But I remember not too long ago, I rented a car. I rented a van for an entire week. And it was for $450, $500. I'm renting a small vehicle for two days. And it's almost $250. It just shocked me. They don’t have cars either. There are no rental cars. In fact, I heard somewhere where there's an increase in people stealing the cars they rent, they just are trying to keep them. They can't get cars, which I understand. But that is just, it's just unbelievable.
This is causing hotels and motels to increase by 26%. Now these are things that, if you travel, they're going to affect you. But how about laundry equipment? If you had to buy laundry equipment, that's increased by 15%. And that's if you can get it. Natural gas, if you're heating your home with natural gas, that's increased by 28%. Remember, in total, it's increased, the inflation rate is 7.5%. But some of these things have increased significantly higher than that. Bacon is increased by 20%. Furniture and bedding have increased by 11%. But let's talk about furniture and bedding. We, my wife and went into a store to buy a couple of end tables. They had them sitting in the show room. We wanted those. They of course didn't have them in stock. It was just two end tables, no big deal. We wanted the tables. So we bought the end tables. And they said Well, they'll probably be in in 8 to 12 weeks, but calling me isn't gonna hurry it up. We waited 18 weeks before I contacted him. And after a big run around and everything else 18 weeks, I was told 10 to 12 weeks, they finally came in about 20 weeks. And then when I went to pick them up, he sold one of them to somebody else. And they had to give me the one off the showroom floor, which I never understood. They could have given me that one the first place but that's not my point. My point is: not only have products gone up, it's also very difficult to get the furniture. Wood’s gone way up, houses have gone way up, all of that, even eggs have increased by 20%. I'm sorry, by 12%. Eggs increase, when this was printed, by 12%; that is huge. All of this information Is by visual capitalist, which is a great website if you want to get detailed information and graphed out information on what's going on. You know, it's funny, I'm looking at the graph for inflation. And you can tell it's starting to increase rapidly.
Rents are way up; it was pretty steady up and down through 2012 to 2021. And now it's gone crazy. In 2022 It's just shot up. And it's really is making it much more difficult for renter. The Year over Year change energy commodities this went up 49.5%. We’re talking about
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