It's weird. I've only seen my natural gas bill increase about 30pc and groceries are only up 5-10pc...everything else has remained the same.

> We won't even talk about gas.

Well that went down in price in July, and is one of the reasons inflation was flat in todays CPI.

Still more than double what it was 2 years ago, and even throughout the last decade (2010-2020) gas prices never broke $4/gallon

More than double what it was during the covid low? yes. But hopefully you see how dumb that is to compare it against.

Cat food has almost doubled and they’re still having problems stocking it.

I was shocked when I went to buy my last 3.3lb bag of cat food and found it had gone up $4. My cats eat a 50/50 mix of baked chicken and dry food. At $3/lb chicken breast is way less expensive than the $7/lb dry food. I can only imagine how much people are spending on their medium to large dogs to feed them.

We've stared buying the cheapest "people" tuna cans for our elderly cat; I think they've cheaped out too far on the cat food and its not really "food" anymore.

Where did you get a vehicle only 10% more expensive?

New Jeep Cherokee Latitude 4x4 was $21k in January 2021. The cheapest new Cherokee now is $35k. 3 years old is $25k. Seattle,WA.

Jeeps aren’t really a good benchmark for cars though, they’re an aspirational car, even the Cherokee.

Can you find a car which price increased only 10%?

Literally the first car I searched for to answer your question (audi s5) had starting prices:

2020 $51.9k

2021 $52.5k

2022 $55.3k

So, yes I can find such a car and it was quite easy. You should reconsider how likely people are to over-estimate the changes in prices compared to a systematic approach to tracking inflation like the BLS performs.

Did you know that MSRP is not the price you pay? The cheapest Audi S5 I can buy now in Seattle is $69,465 with dealer markup.

It's a wee bit more than 10%

With a $38,635 starting price, the entry-level Odyssey now costs $4300 more than last year

There were manufactures and dealer rebates before. My coworker bought Odyssey years ago for $6k off MSRP. I am not in the market for a minivan, so I don't know what rebates were year ago.

This is a poor way to argue.

I agree, comparing MSRP doesn't make sense. Transaction price should be compared.