Quote Originally Posted by Allstar1.8T
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.
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.

This should piss us off, these people making a bad situation worse.
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.