[MrB]

It’s not price gouging.

When there are only 3 boxes of matches left,
and some guy is buying up every box in sight,
he’ll stop doing so and let someone else who needs it worse
when the price becomes high enough for him to say “I already have enough”.

High prices in an emergency prevent hoarding and promote efficient distribution of needed resources.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Yours is the rational opinion. Alas, the average schmuck reacts emotively to these things, and the politicians know it.

[riverrunner]

People had at least a week notice to stock up on some basics.

For a 100 dollars spent before the storm most people would have been much better off.

I do not have very much sympathy for people who did not perpare some what.

[from occupied ga]

High prices in an emergency prevent hoarding and promote efficient distribution of needed resources.

A fact lost on politicians and media morons.

[SJSAMPLE]

Exactly, “gouging” and “hoarding” aren’t even taught in economics classes.

[ansel12]

When there are only 3 boxes of matches left, and some guy is buying up every box in sight, he’ll stop doing so and let someone else who needs it worse when the price becomes high enough for him to say “I already have enough”. High prices in an emergency prevent hoarding and promote efficient distribution of needed resources.

Raising the price on 3 boxes of matches means absolutely nothing, just do what stores always do and limit the items per person.

Raising a price beyond the ability of the wealthy to purchase what they want of it, hardly makes it available to the regular people.