Suppose I need 1/3 of a tank of gas per day to get to work. With odd/even, I’m going every other day and filling up. I may frivol away the remaining 1/3 of a tank at 4 bucks a gallon. With no odd/even and unlimited prices, I go every 3 days and buy whatever I need, and not a drop more.
Suppose I can get a truck full of gas from flyover country to odd/even country. Why bother, I might as well sell it in flyover country, my profit’s the same.
Suppose there was a way to pump the gas twice as fast, but it cost 1,000 bucks to install. At 8 cents a gallon profit, why bother? At 80 cents a gallon profit, it makes a lot more sense.
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A friend of mine complained that there were no 700 dollar generators left in the stores. I asked her if she’d prefer being able to buy the same generator for 1,500.
Suppose you have a fortune you inherited and don’t have to go to work and gas is five bucks a gallon.
Anything can be supposed.