It's Bush's fault.
"Do you include yourself as one who would price gouge? Profit off of people's desperation? Are you one of them?"
I must admit I do complain at the price of beer at the ball game. I do get thirsty, and I am desperate. How desperate? Enough to stand on a soapbox with microphone and DEMAND the beer vendors lower the price...er, uh I mean GIVE it away to all us desperate beer drinkers! I want the government to limit the costs that the vendors charge to what I think is fair.
Ever been to Ebay.com? That wonderfully handmade sweater you put online is wanted by several desperate people, and the price is rising. C'mon it may have cost you fifty dollars to make it, can you imagine someone telling you that you must sell it for no more than a ten dollar profit? or on the other hand, competitors are offering sweaters just like yours at a lower price. Guess what? Your sweater is now worth forty dollars! Welcome to capitalism, sorry your not happy with it.
Prices aren't about fairness. What something cost you yesterday reflected the conditions yesterday. If those conditions change, so does the price - for better or for worse.
I must admit I do complain at the price of beer at the ball game.
You may be a Freeper, but you are not someone I would want to know personally. To compare beers and sweaters to gasoline which is essential to our way of life here in the U.S., is ludicrous. You seem to have no moral compass. You and flashbunny. Not worth discussing this with either of you as you are both cast in your freemarket uber alles concrete.