Posted on 11/03/2012 1:55:01 PM PDT by sickoflibs
Having lived in hurricane lands of Texas and Florida, sometimes businesses do not come back and are replaced by newbies. Some residences don’t come back and are razed. A lot recover.
If you lack insurance, you are in trouble. If you have union thugs blocking out of Sate electric workers and other tradesmen you need for recovery, you will suffer longer with no power and amid ruins. That means more businesses and residences won’t recover.
None of this has anything to do with price gouging.
You are the one arguing for a gubment managed NJ economy price setting and rationing while claiming (obviously falsely) to be a Sowell fan.
Perhaps not in the short term, but in the long term it would resolve the problem. If you knew that purchasing an extra tanker of gas would garner a significant profit you’d prep one for just after the storm. Gas buyers facing the high cost to run a generator will not run it or find alternatives - nat. gas installations. It may even lead to small thorium reactors buried and serving communities of ten thousand and providing serial back up in serving communities whose power supplies fail.
High prices are an effective signal for change and innovatin. Insulating people from the effects of their choices simply worsens the long term status for everyone. These are Macro policies and need to be viewed pver the long term. It is short term “sollutions” that have gotten us into this mess.
Nobodies lifestyle should be subsidized by force.
Perhaps not in the short term, but in the long term it would resolve the problem. If you knew that purchasing an extra tanker of gas would garner a significant profit you’d prep one for just after the storm. Gas buyers facing the high cost to run a generator will not run it or find alternatives - nat. gas installations. It may even lead to small thorium reactors buried and serving communities of ten thousand and providing serial back up in serving communities whose power supplies fail.
High prices are an effective signal for change and innovatin. Insulating people from the effects of their choices simply worsens the long term status for everyone. These are Macro policies and need to be viewed pver the long term. It is short term “sollutions” that have gotten us into this mess.
Nobody’s lifestyle should be subsidized by force.
What if someone NEEDS gas you fat sack of crap?
I bet if your range rover needs filling up you’ll get your gas no matter what day of the week it is Mr. Governor!
That Marxist states needs to legalize pumping your own gas like the other 56 states.
And if fatty pisses me off one more time I’ll officially brand him a RINO *itch for life.
First he licks Obama’s taint and now pulls this Nixonian crap? I have defended him in the past.
Cute, and this relates to price gauging how?.
Cute, and this relates to the immorality of price gauging during an emergency and to the fact that an emergency does not = normal commerce how?.
It shows that gubment can pass price controls, they can prosecute merchants and they can impose rationing but what they don't do is get the drivers more gasoline to buy, or whatever the local shortage is. FEMA is not bringing generators for the closed gas stations either, and they ran out of the free gas they were giving away.
The bigger story is that this law is popular because people don't understand basic economics and why we have prices to begin with, and how they work.
In fact a few on this thread were strongly defending this law, of course if Obama did it I am sure that they would sing a different tune.
Christie looks very unimpressive to me.
He looks like he ate his predecessor.
Must have caught some kind of prion disease when he did it.
” Christie looks very unimpressive to me. “
I never trusted Christie, and the past 2 weeks have proven that my opinion was correct. Let this elephant-eating RINO turd stay in NJ.
You're the one doubting free enterprise and you're calling me a dope? The Obama crack was a low blow but I'm sick and tired of supposed conservatives spouting anti-capitalist baloney.
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