He’s predicting we’ll start feeling the pain at the cash register, since some toilet paper manufacturers have started raising their prices. In Europe, the process is now prohibitively expensive as natural gas and electricity wholesale prices surge to an all-time high,” writes Bloomberg’s Javier Blas. “Transforming wood into pulp and then into toilet tissue is very energy-intensive - more so than for other kinds of papers.
The article cites the cost of energy as a primary pain point driving prices up. It’s the same story across Europe’s entire manufacturing sector.” And it could be heading our way.īloomberg just reported that “it’s getting expensive to make bathroom rolls, which means reduced production, shortages and even higher prices ahead. But it is another notch on inflation’s belt: paying more and getting less. Now, toilet paper prices are rising again, this time because of energy prices in Europe.Įxperts say higher prices won’t necessarily translate to a shortage.
Do you remember the great toilet paper crisis at the beginning of the pandemic, when people started hoarding what is arguably one of the most important consumables of modern life?Īt the time, I wrote about shopping for toilet paper at 4:30 a.m.
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