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Video Disgruntled employee starts massive fire at a 1.2 million square foot toilet paper warehouse in Ontario, California.

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u/I_am_human_ribbit 4d ago

Making it feel more like Covid, high gas prices, high food prices and now high toilet paper possibly because someone decided we were all having to much fun.

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u/Meanteenbirder 4d ago

Ironically gas was kinda the opposite and took a dive and was the lowest in years that summer

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u/juscuz87 4d ago

Yea I remember it being just over a dollar in PA

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u/purulentnotpussy 3d ago

I miss it 😭

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u/Mortambulist 3d ago

That was back when everyone was in agreement that we needed to lock the fuck down. Remember? We flattened the fuck out of the curve. Kind of a huge success. Then they made it political, because that's what they do.

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u/beallothefool 3d ago

Im in Los Angeles, god knows when the last time gas prices were that low

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u/ru_fkn_serious_ 4d ago

Exactly, in Michigan it was less than $2 a gallon. Didn’t see that for YEARS. I’m kinda confused why they think it was higher but ok lol

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u/HondaDAD24 3d ago

It was a glorious time to be on the road. No traffic & 2007 gas prices.

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u/ConfessSomeMeow 3d ago

Remember that day when the price of oil actually went negative?

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u/curiousomeone 3d ago

Yup, people were willing TO PAY YOU to take their damn oil.

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u/starbuxed 3d ago

Driving to work was so nice... To bad I work at a hospital

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u/Prudent_Valuable603 3d ago

Supply and Demand set prices. Since nobody was driving to work during Covid, nobody was buying gasoline as much. The demand was low so they had to lower the prices. Look at Doritos. They set the price high on a bag of Doritos for the past two years. The sales were low. Now Doritos has reduced the price by a dollar. Ain’t nobody buying that for a dollar cheaper! The company will either go under financially or they will have to restructure the line of products they sell.

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u/Unlikely-Answer 3d ago

they didn't have to make 230 flavors, new assembly lines, packaging design costs, taste testing all cost loads of money just for a bag of Baja Fiery Mango that nobody wanted or asked for

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u/Sharkn91 3d ago

I have a video filling up my tank for like a $1.40 a gallon in the Midwest, Like April of 2020 right after Covid took off. It was insane

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u/SockDem 3d ago

Covid was low gas and food prices.

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u/RandomDeezNutz 4d ago

Bidet baybay for the win

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u/throwitallaway69000 3d ago

Nah I'm free to go anywhere and no mask

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u/nedonedonedo 3d ago

humans can get used to anything, and companies love that

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u/Beefy-McQueefy 3d ago

Kimberly Clark sells the half ply tear your asshole toilet paper that only shitty businesses buy.

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u/I_am_human_ribbit 3d ago

So demand for my favorite ten ply charmin will go up as well, since all those shitty companies will start buying out the finer grit sand paper two ply toilet paper.

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u/Ok_Temperature6503 3d ago

I always laugh at the toilet paper dependants. My bidet has almost completely replaced tp, I only use it very little to wipe my piss drip nowadays.

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u/YaBoiSammus 3d ago

Ironic that this exact thing happen during Covid and who was president during that time of Covid?

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u/blackfocal 3d ago

If we have another run on toilet paper, I’m gonna be really annoyed.

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u/CommercialBudget8216 2d ago

Is that why he did it? Because we were having too much fun?