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You said — “Fine. Then using your logic, the oil companies should be able to raise the cost of a gallon of gas to $25.00. If that’s the universal plan you wish to advocate, be my guest.”

It’s not a “plan” of mine — it’s an observation that people here support the idea that companies should be free to charge whatever they want and to fail to sell it if they sell it for too high a price. And also, people here advocate the idea that if the price is too high, then the “market” will correct itself automatically, without any intervention — because someone else will come along and sell a product, some goods or services for cheaper, because the original business was selling at too high a price. Therefore, the market and the choice of people themselves (in buying or not buying, or working for a company or not working for a company) would be *self-correcting* without any government intervention to “make it correct itself”. That’s the idea that I’ve gotten about it.

So, in that instance — the answer is *yes* — if they can sell it for $25.00 a gallon — the by all means *do so*. And that will mean that people will buy less, and someone else will come out with something “better” than gasoline — and everything will “self-correct”.

The primary aim of business — as I understand it here — is to be free to make whatever they want, sell it for whatever price they want and to make as much money as they want — if — they can actually do it in the marketplace — since the “marketplace” will either “affirm” their business decisions or “deny” their business decisions.

So, that’s why I say *yes* — sell gasoline for $25 a gallon *if* they can...

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And you asked — “And if you think it’s okay for gas, then why not food and other necessities?”

The same thing applies (as I said above) for all products — if one is to maintain a marketplace free from government intervention. That’s exactly what they should be allowed to do — double or triple the price of food — if — they can do it — thereby making *all the more money* for the company — which is the sole and total aim of the company in the first place... (from what I understand here)...