Unfortunately it's a sign of the times. Pretty much everything in our hobby, as well as the "outside" world, is going up. Many factors are causing this including oil prices up, falling value of the dollar, as well as other "situations" in the world. Hopefully the economy will turn around and these prices will come back down, but I doubt that is going to happen any time soon. It just means we'll all have to be a lot more economical in how we pursue this hobby.

Ken