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To: advance_copy
Rising prices caused me to fill up my tanks before they go up even more. It's gouging, period.

I guess you don't understand economics. Try reading Walter Williams sometime.

Do you not think there is a serious crisis in supply happening in this country? Do you think supply has any relation to demand and price?

If the station operators did not react to the market, they would soon be out of business.

SD

4,835 posted on 08/31/2005 9:12:40 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

The cost to produce a gallon of gas has not doubled in the last five years. But the retail price has doubled, even before this storm. Now the storm becomes another excuse for gouging even more.


4,854 posted on 08/31/2005 9:18:22 AM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life, or nothing at all)
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