Price gauging hit around here about two days ago ... price at the pumps in East Tennessee went up $.50 per gallon overnight ... and we’re not in the hurricane path. The retailers don’t wait for the suppliers in LA to run low and increase prices, they just escalate as soon as they see even a slime reason to jack the price. I’ll stay home and eat cat food before I’ll buy their damn inflated fuel. A week from now, when the supply has not been disrupted significantly, the prices will slowly come back to the $3.49 per gallon where they were. But the reduction will be painfully slow. SAM’S club is the only one which makes immediate changes to pre-panic pricing. And the SAM’S Club here is still at the rational price so they are about to be bought out by the end of this afternoon!
Good personal testimony, MHG.
You underscore the difference between an American conservative and a religiously devoted libertarian.
Standing “O” for you!! With cheers!