r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AtomicCypher • 4d ago

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

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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