The shortage of TP is an issue of stupid politicians. One of the most basic laws of economics is the law of supply and demand. Yet politicians pass non-price gouging laws that subvert the law.
If the price of TP were allowed to go up as the law of supply and demand require, eventually the supply would replenish and the price would come back to normal
Totally agree. If stores jack up the price of toilet paper, the people with a hundred rolls already at home will stop buying it. Those who really need it will pay the higher price. Eventually, things will settle back to normal.
Want to know why we are short of it?
Because they ran most of the tissue mills to hell out of the country and now a lot of it comes from South of the border.
BTW, China is the worlds number one producer of paper products. Used to be the USA-not that long ago, but the price of doing business went up so high here because of EPA rules and regs that they shut down pulp and paper mills.
Kimberly Clark-the makers of Scott and Cottonelle, and one other brand, just about left the USA for Mexico and South America. They also make facial tissue as well as hand tissue as well as a lot of other products.
KC was thee largest producer of paper products in the upper midwest and the world-still are pretty big. But the good ol EPA made it nearly impossible for them to keep all their production in the USA.