I feel like something is definetly going on behind the scenes. In my industry we are experiencing big supply chain problems. Certain plastic fittings and pipe are hard to obtain. MAP gas for our torches is completely gone, all of a sudden the canisters have become unavailable. Backflow preventors (brass devices) are suddenly unavailable as of this week.
My theory is either A. The Xiden administration is engineering a collapse B. Military is taking over supply chains C. Alot of this stuff comes from China and they are cutting us out.
Little more prosaic than that....these are the effects of the worldwide lockdowns on supply, after the inventory on hand is exhausted, and as building picks back up. Buckle up, cause it's gonna get a whole lot worse before it gets better. Prices are changing faster than they can be posted. (The painful part of supply and demand is about to begin.)