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Virginia BP Gas Station Charges $6.99 per Gallon amid Fuel Shortage
Breitbart ^ | 05/13/2021 | Amy Furr

Posted on 05/13/2021 10:28:42 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

A gas station in Richmond, Virginia, charged customers $6.99 a gallon Tuesday not long after the governor declared a state of emergency because of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware cyberattack that caused gasoline shortages.

According to WTVR, Lether Kerney, who pulled up to the BP gas station on Williamsburg Road, said, “It was a lot of people there, no one looked at the price.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: charges; gas; station; virginia
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At least we don't have mean tweets anymore.... right, you woke morons?
1 posted on 05/13/2021 10:28:42 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Thank Biden.


2 posted on 05/13/2021 10:29:42 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Wo)
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To: Reno89519

Economics 101, i.e. the law of supply and demand.


3 posted on 05/13/2021 10:30:51 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Owned by a Pakistani or Indi?


4 posted on 05/13/2021 10:31:51 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And what does Gropey’s Energy Secretary have to say about all this? “Well, if you drove an electric car, you wouldn’t have to worry about a gas shortage.”

The sheep who let these wolves into the henhouse can all shut the EFF up about high gas prices.


5 posted on 05/13/2021 10:32:05 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Good, someone who understands basic economics. I bet everyone bought just enough gas for the next couple days.


6 posted on 05/13/2021 10:32:50 AM PDT by cyclotic (Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Night Hides Not

Yep. I don’t blame them.


7 posted on 05/13/2021 10:32:56 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No more mean tweets from Trump! Yay!

Instead we have a guy who has called a voter a dog-faced pony soldier. Called another voter a “damn liar” and said to another voter “You’re too old to vote for me.”.

But, you know, he’s polite about it. [/s]


8 posted on 05/13/2021 10:33:30 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I think price gouging is illegal


9 posted on 05/13/2021 10:33:45 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Night Hides Not

Supply and demand? Or price gouging?


10 posted on 05/13/2021 10:34:23 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Actual FR Quote: “I ain’t getting no Covid Vaccine. I’d rather get Covid and DIE before I get a jab.)
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To: Sacajaweau

That is basic supply and demand.


11 posted on 05/13/2021 10:34:34 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page)
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To: Night Hides Not

Exactly what it is. Those who need gas the most will pay the extra and supplies will remain available. The alternative is price fixing, which leads to shortages. If the price rises during the supply crunch, the resource remains available. Without that signal, the market will simply drain the remaining supply and then nobody will have any gas no matter how badly it’s needed.


12 posted on 05/13/2021 10:34:38 AM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Fill that barrel at $6.99 a gallon.


13 posted on 05/13/2021 10:36:18 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The way it works in Florida, a station can’t raise its price until it has received a new allotment of fuel at a higher price. In disasters, a tiny tanker like you’d see on an airfield in the 1940’s runs from station to station pumping 100 gallons and leaving an invoice at the new price.

The business model for a gas station is not to sell gas. Gas is used as the traffic generator for the main sales, in order of importance, cigarettes, beer, food and lottery tickets. The sales on those items beats gas sales by 16:1.
The idea is not to run out of gas. If you leave your price low then you sell out of gas and lose all the associated sales to competitors. They honestly do not care what the price of gas is.


14 posted on 05/13/2021 10:37:06 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Sacajaweau

Price gouging is when the government raises tolls during rush hour.


15 posted on 05/13/2021 10:37:11 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( Biden won, Trump got the most legal votes.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wife hates it when I explain the evils of anti-price-gouging laws to the kids.

I came to understand the issue when I had to get to work (2 hour drive then), gas stations were dry, and tank had barely enough to get there but not back. Of course everyone will “top off” if supply is limited and price is about normal - leaving nothing for those who NEED it, and high price being fair for their situation.


16 posted on 05/13/2021 10:37:15 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (All worry about monsters that'll eat our face, but it's our job to ask why it wants to eat our face.)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/with-gas-supply-low-be-on-the-lookout-for-price-gouging/


17 posted on 05/13/2021 10:44:08 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Night Hides Not
These shrewd players were ahead of their time:


18 posted on 05/13/2021 10:45:04 AM PDT by TimSkalaBim
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Higher prices but $6.99/gal sounds like plain price gouging and not making up for higher costs.


19 posted on 05/13/2021 10:45:49 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Wuli

Think so, go to California, the average price there right now is over $5, is that gouging?


20 posted on 05/13/2021 10:48:11 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page)
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