Gas Station Chain Fined For Selling Gas Too Cheaply

The Indy Channel ^ | February 27, 2006 | AP

[silentreignofheroes]

Is this the U.S.???

No,this is nothing but International Banking..They own the business,set the price and you had darn well better pay your debt on time..!

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Well, it wasn't pretty, let me tell you.

I was taking a course in Soviet Constitutional and Legal History while in law school during the fall of 1991. There was a reading period of about a week, just before exams began in mid Decmber of that year. Between the last lecture and the final exam - the subject matter of the course went poof!

During those last weeks of the CCCP - I recall one stunning factoid quoted in an article in the New York TImes. Their Moscow correspondent was noticing the absurd contrasts between the expanding and increasingly above ground "black market" and the items which were still priced according to the central planning experts.

The quote that will remain with me as long as I have accessible brain cells is this: "The price of 5 quarts of fresh milk, imported from Finland and available on the black market - is now equal to the price of a one way ticket on Aeroflot from Moscow to Vladivostok, 13 time zones away."

[MarxSux]

Not exactly. It's Minnesota.

[Just another Joe]

Is this Scrappleface?

Nope. This is Minnesota.

Minnesota tells the gas stations the minimum price they can charge for a gallon of gas.

[VRWCmember]

but some critics argue it fails to protect consumers.

How silly. It protects consumers from paying too little for gas. If they paid too little, they might get confused about what to do with the rest of their money.

[antiRepublicrat]

A law with the good intent of stopping monopolistic dumping now being used to hurt the consumer. Great.

[geezerwheezer]

I've got it all figured out....them folks at the state house up there in Minnesota done went and got their brains frozed and come up with this here hare-brained idear of charging a minimum price for the poor folks to buy their gasoline. I reckon that's 'cause the people wouldn't know how to properly spend their excess cash savings on food and stuff like that, so the state of Minnesota gonna' hep 'em spend their money. Dang, you folks up there sure is really smart to think of that idear all on your own!! Whut dumass idear you got fur next week?

[OnRightOnLeftCoast]

Uff da!

You couldn't have said it better.

Classic Catch-22!

[mad_as_he$$]

Another fine example of Government sticking it's nose in where it has no business.

[festus]

I wonder if it also affects the taxation...

Folks the man has the answers. This is the same for govt be it gas or tobacco. They want their money.

[bulldozer]

There is a reason Minnesota has the Loon as the state bird.