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Local news caught one station with $8/gallon and when they went inside the manager went running out to change it saying one of his employees "made a mistake".
I have seen people drive to gas stations with canisters to put gasoline into as well as top off the truck... normal gas prices will encourage that behavior... high prices deter people from getting more than they need and allows OTHER PEOPLE to get what they need... If it cost $20/gallon, then I make sure to get enough to where I am going where prices are normal... Next disaster and prices are normal, are you going to complain that there wasn't enough for everyone? You can't have it both ways...
Which "convenience" store was it?.........Would like to know so I can Boycott them.........
oh and Frank.........whatever you argue........$20 a gallon for gas is "gouging"
To conservatives this type of price hike is perfectly acceptable. Apparently they only wish the wealthy to be able to procure the supplies necessary to survive a disaster. The rest can just do without and starve. They don't have the moral capacity to understand that price gouging like this during or after a disaster is wrong, illegal, and can be prosecuted with very large fines. I can only hope that the plaintiffs in this case will be over the age of 65. The fine after that point increases exponentially.
I have seen people drive to gas stations with canisters to put gasoline into as well as top off the truck... normal gas prices will encourage that behavior... high prices deter people from getting more than they need and allows OTHER PEOPLE to get what they need... If it cost $20/gallon, then I make sure to get enough to where I am going where prices are normal... Next disaster and prices are normal, are you going to complain that there wasn't enough for everyone? You can't have it both ways...
That also denies those who cannot pay that price from getting gas. That's why we have quantity controls in place to prevent what you are describing. Why is that so hard for you to grasp?
I'm sure you feel like a better person now for advocating violence just because you don't like how someone is handling their own private business while not hurting anyone else.
He can charge $20 or simply shut down, he has no obligation to sell anything he doesn't want to.
So sick of people that just want violence and turmoil because they don't get their way, or have philosophical differences with others, its disgusting.
Yes he can shut down and make $0 profit as opposed to being a decent human being and selling his gas at a NORMAL profit margin. If I were him I'd choose to sell my gas at the market price and avoid the fines and angry mobs.
That's the going rate for gas in and around Houston. Before the storm, $2.50 would have been on the high side. I can fill up (at least before the storm) at Costco for $1.95.
Prices can change daily (sometimes more than once) with gasoline, there is no "going rate" other than what the street decides ( supply and demand).
I'm not defending a theoretical price gouging gas station (I still don't believe the story) but I find it interesting that people are so outraged at paying $0.16/oz gas when they happily pay $0.30/oz for a Starbucks coffee (oftentimes daily) without thinking twice about it.
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