There is no moral difference between the bastards jacking up gas prices on inventory already purchased and the bastards looting in the streets of New Orleans.
Yeah, some people even sell their HOUSE for more than they paid! Can you believe such immoral folks? They should sell it for what they paid, not replacement (market) cost!
Supply and demand.
The moral difference is this: THE GAS PURVEYORS OWN THE GAS.
The practical difference is this: looting reduces the goods available for you to purchase, while high prices increase the goods available for you to purchase. If the gas stations charge less than the market price, there will be a shortage.
Expensive gas beats NO GAS to hell and back.
Your problem is that you've bought into the common fallacy that production cost determines (or ought to determine) price.
"...I posted this on another thread and believe it to my core:
There is no moral difference between the bastards jacking up gas prices on inventory already purchased and the bastards looting in the streets of New Orleans...."
I am in total agreement. With the situation being what it is, who's to say that tacking on a "little extra",(aka: gouging), won't be noticed? When things calm dawn, how fast do you think it's going to take the pump price to go back to the pre-Katrina level? IMPO, not until November or December, if then. Having said all that, the whole, bad, nightmare sucks to the max.
Mega dittos! What do you characterize something that is above and beyond "obscene profits"?
Very well said.