I dont know how much is tangible and how much is speculation, but I’m seeing toilet paper being added back to the supply risk list again. Maybe not so much shortages, but price increases - because we all know what paper is made out of…
Are wood prices going up across the board, or is it just lumber specifically? With all the current headlines about lumber prices, it’s hard to find any distinction.
I thought it was cotton. Or kitten. 
I gather its mostly lumber prices and caused more by supply/demand for lumber specifically. Sawmill capacity is an issue and thats only going to impact lumber not other wood based production.
Some people are currently freaking out about gas availability due to the pipeline hack. Bad news is gas shortages are a self-fulfilling prophecy. Good news is they usually don’t last too long since people can’t stock up on gas like they can toilet paper.
most people.
You don’t have a 500 gallon tank? 
My dad does … he has often 'stocked up on gas. Its been effective to buy seasonally when prices drop in the winter months. Course its mostly more hassle than its worth and 500 gal tanks are expensive.
But 55 gallon drums can be had pretty cheap…
Gasoline ‘expires’ after awhile. You need to use it in 3-6 months or it starts to go bad.
Yes it does. I’d have to ask my dad how long he expects it to be good. The 3 months number seems very short to me. Maybe it depends on humidity levels… (?)
But then my dad drives beaters and he isn’t the type to won’t worry about gas being a little ‘bad’. its not as if the gas is completely unusable, but it starts to get contaiminated with water and start to gum up.
As you say, a lot depends on what you are using it for, some uses can be much more forgiving. 3-6 months generally, there are additives to add that keeps it stable for longer.
If you want to go for highly inprecise, you can always try mixing a little high grade into aging low octane 
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You can also use ethanol-free gas. I’ve used it in all of my outdoor power eqpt for a decade, without having to use Sta-bil. So far, no carb rebuilds/replacements. It’s not cheap, though - about the price of hi-test. 
ETA: It seems that the further south you go (higher average temps), the worse the effects of aging and ethanol.
Just get ego tools. You’ll never look back. (Obviously not a replacement for a riding mower to cut 20 acres though)
Love those riding lawn mowers!
I buy my gas using grocery store fuel reward discounts, which discount up to 25 gallons per fillup. I always fill what I’m driving, then put the rest in cans which are then used to fill our other two cars.
I’m due for another fillup (if the right station has any supply), and I’m almost scared to pull up to a pump and get out my cans so that I can pump the full 25 gallons. Even though it’s my normal purchase, and alternatively we could waste gas driving all 3 cars there and put 10+ gallons in each and no one would bat an eyelash.
Oh, how I hate optics.
Yeah it definitely depends. I am fully battery powered and I’m going to pick up a few pieces of gas power equipment in the next few months.
In particular, the battery powered leaf blowers just can’t hold a candle to some of the backpack powered gas blowers. We are on a heavily forested lot out in the woods and after a couple seasons out here, I’m ready to bring in the big guns to clean up the yard in the fall and spring. I’m also ready to buy a better mower as the battery one that I have, while it cuts ok, takes its fair share of abuse from rocks and roots and was just built to a lower spec than the gas powered ones.
The battery powered chainsaws though are great. Same with the trimmer we have.
In one of my less proud moments, I got in a shouting match with a guy when there was a line at our local Kroger. I pulled up behind him. Unbeknownst to me, the person that had just pulled up to the pump on the other side of the island (same physical pump, but a different nozzle) was his wife. He had just started filling his car when I pulled up and was clearly “in line” for his pump. He looked back at me. I didn’t think anything of it at the time, but he was clearly debating whether he should do what he was about to do. With all pumps full, his wife blocked a pump, didn’t touch that pump’s nozzle, he filled his car, and then he proceeded to move the nozzle from his car to her car. I honked. He yelled at me. I yelled at him. My wife yelled at me. I told her, “If he had just told me he was doing that when I got in line behind him, I wouldn’t have been upset. I would have just pulled away to wait behind a car at another pump.” She didn’t care for that reasoning. (There was no gas shortage when this all happened.) Then I just sat there and steamed. After he left, I pulled up and started pumping. I thought he had driven off, but he parked nearby. About 5 seconds after I started pumping, he walked up to me and apologized, I said, “That’s ok, no big deal, sorry for yelling.”
It was a lot like this:
I think our wives had something to do with the apologies.
TL;DR I totally understand your worry about the optics of filling your gas cans, but if the station is busy, I promise you, the optics of filling 3 cars at one pump will be MUCH worse! lol
Two reasonable people handling things in what sometimes feels like unreasonable times. Yay!
Although not on twenty acres, I also am not on 1/12 acre.
The battery blowers blow in a bad way. I would need a half-dozen spare batteries for the trimmer. A battery mower would be running constantly to get thru the thick bermuda that people down here call grass.
Now, if anyone has an electric / automated hoe (no jokes, please), I would be interested in testing it. Weeds (including the aforementioned bermuda) find their way everywhere, including mulched rose beds, raised mulched vegetable beds, and mulched landscaping beds with an 8" concrete deterrent. 
Forget gasoline shortage, this is a real crisis
It was in the other thread. Fox covered it. It’s Biden’s fault