(Rant Alert) Why does copper battery cable cost $13.00 per foot?

[TTSX]

The amount of time and energy you've spent running all over Timbuktu to save $100 doesn't seem worth it to me. I would think just buying the right stuff right at the beginning and washing your hands of the project is the way to go

 

[Caveman Jim]

Nice clean and uniform work Mark!!!

 

[Certaindeaf]

It's because DA's won't prosecute thieves so joe's your uncle. pretty simple really

 

[GrayGoose]

It's because copper is made from eggs.

 

[TereHanges]

So just for bubblegums and giggles I went to my old suppliers web site to check prices, standard battery cable my cost is $3.45 a ft if buying a 100' foot roll, before I sold out I was sell it for $4.62 a ft. Fine strand battery is $4.90 a ft 100'roll. So $13 is some serious markup. Sounds like what NAPA was trying in my local market. I sold a crap ton of wire because I wasn't trying to retire on a couple of sales.

Sadly the company that bought me out didn't take my wire and accessories so I still have a crap ton.

 

[CLT65]

I heard today that there are discussions about tariffs on copper. If that happens, I wonder how it will affect the price of copper. If it goes up much, it might be a good time to just scrap those multiple buckets full of nice clean 9mm and 5.56 brass sitting in my garage.

 

[Provincial]

Silly me....I didn't think it could get much worse.
You're not helping.


.....and then there was this time I thought it would be fun the buy an airplane.

An old timer warned me when I was a young man:

"If it flies, floats, or f****, it is cheaper to rent."

 

[Member 53867]

I just had a bunch stolen by tweekers if it makes ya feel any better....

Maybe OP should check the local tweeker swap meet. Might have what you're looking for.

 

[Quirt Evans]

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/america_s_copper_supplies_are_running_out.html

 

[Certaindeaf]

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/america_s_copper_supplies_are_running_out.html

Thankfully anti-american mining regulations are soon to be past-tense.

 

[Caveman Jim]

Thankfully anti-american mining regulations are soon to be past-tense.

Gotta flex our muscles and

 

[Mark W.]

Nice clean and uniform work Mark!!!

Thanks an unbelievable amount of planning and over engineering went into pretty much everything to do with my Willys.

 

[Mikej]

Thanks an unbelievable amount of planning and over engineering went into pretty much everything to do with my Willys.

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I can't believe you'd get that dirty?

 

[Provincial]

You probably spent more time and effort into building that Jeep than Bantam did in creating the original prototype!

 

[Mark W.]

I can't believe you'd get that dirty?

You should have seen it after 300 miles of off road and dirt roads on our way to the SE corner of Oregon on the way to Pocatello ID. First bath in the middle of a 2002 mile trip. It all comes clean in the self wash.

 

[Mark W.]

You probably spent more time and effort into building that Jeep than Bantam did in creating the original prototype!

They spent a whopping 49 days creating the first prototype. I spent 10.5 years spread across 17 years to take the jeep I left in days shop in Sept of 76 back to the road in May of 21.