Um yeah.....most of the gas stations by me are shut down....Originally Posted by rollin_hard
Um yeah.....most of the gas stations by me are shut down....
Possibly because they're out of gas. Which is, in part, because Purdue signed that stupid 'price gouging' executive order.
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LOL yeah its cause they are outa gas....duh
Hey, I'm not gonna assume anything. They could be playing twister in the back room or something.
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Somebody had told me they paid 5.00 a gallon for gas in Georgia I couldn't believe. Anyways here in North Louisiana gas is 2.79 at some places and I just heard from my neighbor that they are shuting down all gas stations up here for three days. This is gonna suck for those who have to work this week, makes me glad I took 2 weeks off and switch from driving my 16mpg suv to my avg 30mpg neon.
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Why the hell can't they charge what they want?? It is a fucking capitalist society!
Ask most gs station owners and they will tell your they make lees then 3cents on a gallon, alot work with like .5cents and so on. Thats besides the point though, the people were acting fucking crazy yesterday. They are a bunch of paniking pussies. They were coming in and getting gas in like 5 gallon kegs!! WTF???? If all you assholes would just go about normal business then nothing would have happened, the gas would be there, not one place would really have runout due to gas shortages, they can get deliveries from up noirth or other places. But it was like the fuckin domino effect, one bastard out there starts saying were gonna have a gas crisis, and the whole city fills up at one time, forcing everyone to go to the stations because they really will need to fill up in the next day or so and they can't because Bob over there came with 10 5 gallon kegs and took all the fucking gas.
The owners can raise prices as much as they fucking want to. If I were one of the gas station owners I would have gone to $5+ and controlled the goddamn crowd for the night then drop down after midight to regular prices.
Chicken Farmer made a decision out of his ass, it was like a fucking communist, the government should never be able to control haw much profit one person can make. If you don't like the stations that gouged, don't go to them, you are the consumer. But atleast they still have gas, I just saw QT at 3.34 and they were at 2.80 yesterday, but because they ranout overnight, they probably had to get a special delivery and paid more so now you paymore. BOOOHOOOOO.
I can garauntee you that:
A) any gas station who was most expensive in their area still has gas, and
B) There were people this morning who could NOT find gas because prices were kept artificially low and the retarded myrmidons who were rushing the pumps put gas in everything that could hold liquid. If they put it up to $5 a gallon for 24-48 hours, the people who really NEEDED it could get it, and everyone else would begin rationing and budgeting appropriately, instead of mass hysteria.
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[QUOTE=tunerforlife]Why the hell can't they charge what they want?? It is a fu^&ing capitalist society!
Actually, No you cant. Not on a natural Gov regulated resource.
They sign an agreement allowing the gov to mandate sales, and taxing on the product. They are allowed a tollerance w/ in a pheasable range, but when it stirs panic, its a punishable crime...I heard of a store that had reg @ 8.99 a gallon. They are shut down, and not just fined.
This should piss us off, these people making a bad situation worse. Oh and Kerry making things any different?! , he couldnt have stopped Katrina from knocking power out of our only 2 Gulf supply lines...this isnt political, its what insurance refers to as an "act of God"
When 25% of our total supply is stopped cold, the week before one of the largest demand gas weekends in the year, and during a war...we are just gonna suffer, even if the new Pope was Pres.
Everyone relax, and buy gas as you NEED it...theres plenty left if you do.
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1) The entire concept of taxing and regulating price on a government 'regulated resource' is another bag of monkeys altogether.
2) The rise in gas prices didn't stir a panic, speculation on gas prices/availability stirred a panic, and because gas stations were prevented from regulating their own supply by raising prices, many of them ran out, thus creating a self-fulfilling prophecy for the consumer who panicked.
Wrong. It only 'pisses us off' because all the average person would see is gas for 5-6 dollars a gallon, and he'd get mad, and whine to his local politician, who would then pass an executive order forbidding it, and get average joe to vote for him next election. Except now average joe can't find any goddamn gas because due to price restrictions, everyone rushed the pumps. Oops, well, at least Purdue got some extra voters.This should piss us off, these people making a bad situation worse.
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