I am not understanding the shortage

by bj2, Monday, July 22, 2013, 00:03 (4087 days ago) @ cas

reselling it in the store at no profit, just to at least make range fees. Anything to try and keep the lights on

Everybody says that there is more production now than ever, and I would expect that.

Everybody claims that the government is not buying it. I have no way of knowing if this is true or not.

So if there is a lot of production, and all of it is getting sold, then who is selling it? I would expect that any given store would be selling more now than they sold in the ordinary times, and prices are up, so logically any retailer should be making more money now than ever.

The only issue would be if the production is getting allocated unfairly.