I’ve a small solar electric system for power while camping. For storage I use deep cycle marine lead acid batteries. My plan was to move the camping battery to the sailboat and get a brand new battery for camping. We have a camping trip planned for next month and wanted a fresh battery.
A couple of weeks ago there were deep cycle batteries for sale all over town. Monday they were in short supply. Of course my thought was that there was another supply issue I hadn’t heard about. Finally I was able find one at an auto parts store. He had only two left in stock.
As it turns out the shortage was a local issue. We had a huge influx of campers and boaters over the long holiday weekend. For a lot of people it was their first trip of the season. Apparently plenty of people don’t test their batteries before traveling. Once they got here they quickly bought out almost everything.
I’m actually kinda relieved that it was a local issue. It just goes to show that it doesn’t take much to overwhelm our just-in-time system.
-Sixbears
The EPA an the green Nazis managed to end allowed mining in the USA. They are now turning their hand ced eye on lead mining elsewhere. The goal is the end of lead usage in industry....and unless stopped they'll succeed. So no more lead acid batteries....or a lot of other products that require lead. And lead isn't the only thing they want to ban.
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