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BOSSHOG

(44,738 posts)
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 03:24 PM Jun 2025

TRUMPS TARIFFS WILL INCREASE PRICE OF BEER

By increasing cost of aluminum cans. Per NPR. Everything he touches.

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The Roux Comes First

(2,156 posts)
1. NOW We're Onto Something of Consequence! F the Eggs!
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 03:26 PM
Jun 2025

(Of course beer prices have been escalating for quite some time, as best I can tell!)

hlthe2b

(112,834 posts)
3. Not only aluminum cans, but malted barley--18-20% which IS imported for domestic beer production.
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 03:29 PM
Jun 2025

I was in COSTCO when a group assembled around the Corona beer display (the price had increased--I'm told--by 40%, and the young lady stocking said that was only an "interim," i.e., minimum increase). She said domestic beer was increasing by the end of the month.

BOSSHOG

(44,738 posts)
5. BUT, and this is the important part
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 03:32 PM
Jun 2025

Those who voted for trump, didn’t vote for “this.” God Bless Em.

hlthe2b

(112,834 posts)
6. Well, they will just have to switch to RFK Jr's chosen "healthy" alternative...
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 03:35 PM
Jun 2025

Heroin? That's what he says--it got him through school.

I am so damned sick of everything and anything to do with this administration, MAGA, R's in general, and those members of the MSM who refuse to report on this in all its "ugly" reality.

The Roux Comes First

(2,156 posts)
13. Actually, From What I Can Tell, Most of Them Did Not Vote "for" Anything
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 05:57 PM
Jun 2025

It's all hate and caste-voting: he promised not to let any of "those people" ever get an edge on poor pitiful underprivileged ME!

I.e., Hate, Hate, Hate.

doc03

(38,841 posts)
7. Thats what happens with tariffs, donestic
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 03:36 PM
Jun 2025

producers will see it as an opertunity to raise prices. Same with steel and aluminum.

Efilroft Sul

(4,321 posts)
8. MAGA will have to switch to other drinks, like their own piss. It tastes like Coors Light and has a little wang to it.
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 03:43 PM
Jun 2025

customerserviceguy

(25,406 posts)
11. I keep hearing that
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 04:48 PM
Jun 2025

but I'm not aware of any sudden increases in the amount paid for scrap aluminum cans. Shouldn't aluminum tariffs affect the price paid for recyclable scrap?

BOSSHOG

(44,738 posts)
12. I am not aware of
Wed Jun 4, 2025, 07:23 PM
Jun 2025

For sure, but I think Capitalism would guarantee that scenario. We have a great recycling program in the county. Large cartons of aluminum cans each week.

Melon

(1,101 posts)
15. How can this be if there is $0.035 of aluminum per can
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 06:46 PM
Jun 2025

Half ounce aluminum per can. Roughly $0.07 per ounce of aluminum. Canners probably buy better.

Sounds like gouging from someone in the chain. It’s less than a $0.25 per case of tariff cost.

I’ve heard of others taking advantage of us on this same principle. Corporate greed

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