Smells like a libertarian at work.
Anyone who buys this will quit believing once they actually have to deal with price gouging and living disaster conditions.
Anyone who buys this will quit believing once they actually have to deal with price gouging and living disaster conditions.
Another way of looking at it would be that anyone who's actually had to "deal with price gouging and living disaster conditions" will make sure they don't get caught with their pants down the next time.
Don't want to pay more than market price for a generator when you need one? Then buy one when you don't "need it", when the prices are lower.
Although ironically, I heard some jerk raving on the news about "price gouging" on a generator -- the only problem was the price he quoted seemed to be if anything below market price for a generator of that size. I feel sorry for the poor bastard -- selling gensets at a discount-- who got harrassed for "gouging". I bet next time disaster strikes, you'll find him somewhere else, watching some other guy getting the "no good deed shall go unpunished" treatment.
Anyway, as long as we're a country populated with people who prefer to spend their money on beer and entertainment, instead of some cheap supplies that can save their lives (or at the very least, make their lives a LOT more livable when disaster strikes), we'll have to put up with loudmouthed statist jackbootiestoots ranting and raving about "gouging".
As for me, well, simple supplies are absurdly cheap, and absurdly easy to store until needed.
Unfortunately, the parable of the ant and the grasshopper has been largely replaced by the tale of the bureaucrat and the "greedy businessman". And we're ALL poorer for the substitution.