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Bobcatz

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Why has the price of the lead acid batteries skyrocketed in the last few years?
I've asked this same question at the local parts supply which sell them but they have no answer!
 
It is like any thing else that depends on fuel to get the thing some place gas prices drive up all other prices and with a battery you also have the fact the plastic case is a by product of gas/diesel and is made from oil products so oil price up so is battery prices
 
With only about three battery manufacturers anymore, there is no competition among brands.
 
(quoted from post at 13:48:40 10/22/12) Why has the price of the lead acid batteries skyrocketed in the last few years?
I've asked this same question at the local parts supply which sell them but they have no answer!
f only 3 then thee is still competition among the 3! Sure fuel to transport is a factor in all products, but the [i:925f061a64]real [/i:925f061a64]reason is lead. All metals are up by a lot in recent years. A few years ago an old battery might bring a couple bucks for scrap, but now well over $20, depending on weight.
 
You asked a highschool dropout behind the counter who never touched a battery until six months ago. Why the price of batteries is up?
 
They pretty much have doubled since I last bought one. I think I was buying a 50-60 dollar battery 3-4 years ago. The last one I bought was $95 at Sams. Auto parts store wanted $115 for the same one. $15 core charge. I had to buy 2 for the Duramax D truck. Ouch!! $225....
 
Aside from lead being high you can also thank your government for all the extra manufacturing costs through excessive rules and regulations on businesses.
 
It depends where you buy them. The last battery I bought was a Group 31 exide and cost $89.00 + core at the Volvo dealer. Everywhere else was 130+. The local parts store isn't going to be able to tell you anything unless that person has been working in parts for a while AND cares enough to actually pay attention.
 
Chinese several years ago dumped new lead on the market cheap. After all the companies got hooked and the US lead production ceased due the cheap competition, the Chinese upped the price of lead.

They tried this with certain rare metals, and US companies had to re-open mines out west that had been closed for several years.

Charles
 
Batteries, Gas , oil, food, stamps, freight the list goes on & on mostly is past 4 years..Can't figure it out.. maybe the weather.
 
I buy my batteries from Walmart and I've had two of them to last 10 years and one 11 years so I figured it was time to replace them. The car battery failed after 5 years that came with the car. I replaced it with a battery from Walmart.
I also have one of their battery's in my garden tractor I still have that old battery on a shelf in the garage that's 10 years old. Hal
 
People are missing the bigger picture. It's not just batteries, it's pretty much everything. Why? Because Treasury and the Fed have purposely devalued our dollar. If something cost you $50.00 in 2005 dollars and a 2012 dollar is only worth 50 cents, then that same item is going to cost you $100.00. And your pay ( for instance) of $1000.00 a month is now actually only worth $500.00.

Welcome to reality. $16 TRILLION dollars of debt has a very real effect folks.
 
anything based on a global commodity like lead is going to go up - since the value of the dollar is down.

It simply takes more of the cheaper dollars to buy a given quantity of lead.

Unforunately we have to keep our dollars cheap so we can afford to pay off our debt!

Doesn't matter if we owe trillions if we can make a trillion dollars only be "worth" a billion.

Of course, the way it's supposed to work is we all should be earning more dollars to offset the difference. But that requires a real economy - not a government driven one.
 
It's well known that our beloved President believes in wealth transfer. If you don't have any savings the devalued dollar doesn't matter; if you had savings it just got transferred.
 
(quoted from post at 07:26:51 10/23/12) People are missing the bigger picture. It's not just batteries, it's pretty much everything. Why? Because Treasury and the Fed have purposely devalued our dollar. If something cost you $50.00 in 2005 dollars and a 2012 dollar is only worth 50 cents, then that same item is going to cost you $100.00. And your pay ( for instance) of $1000.00 a month is now actually only worth $500.00.

Welcome to reality. $16 TRILLION dollars of debt has a very real effect folks.


Glad I am not the only one who gets it. The only way out of our debt(federal, pensions, municipal)obligations is inflating the dollar away to nothing.
 
Well, that's one way out Rich. There other way is to rebuild our economy, create long term growth, slowly wean down the entitlements and bring pensions in line with reality, lower by at least 2/3 gov't spending and waste, bring responsibility back into fashion in Washington and our State capitals and educate the American people on the merits of conservative fiscal habits in all things. In 20 years we'd see a completely different picture.
 
Right on! Another way to think about it- remember when a silver dollar(once of silver) = $1, now an once of silver is worth approx $31.Carrying that same thought a little farther a penny back then was worth about 31 cents in today's $ and a penny back then would purchase a fair bit on candy!
 

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