If you look at the 5 year.... you would see that lead was even higher in 2011 and 2008.... hmmmm.
Yep-gouging..plain and simple. And yes, I understand supply and demand. have 35 yrs in ecomonist stuff. Econ 101 is bullsh$t. A party that hikes prices doesn't have to...period. If the component price for making bullets is stable, give and take a little here or there, and labor costs certainly are less...these folks ain't union, fuel for delivery and LNG for melting stuff has been about the same as well. S why does a company decide to hike the price because there is demand for the product? Because they can. They do not have to, but they determine people want their stuff so bad, they figure they can increase the price and make more. That is called sticking the consumer.
Demand can be fixed for a cost...the result is more supply. But it's all BS in the end. Like I said, us MG customers have been assimilated.