Though as a good liberal I tend to support them, I've always been confused by anti-gouging laws. How is it possible to price something "above the market"? If people are paying the price you're charging, that is the market. Isn't it?
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Put a price ceiling at $1.75 a gallon. The gas companies have made tens of billions of dollars this year. It's time for them to be "patriotic Americans" and sacrifice for the good of the country.I'm about to get aroused from watching the pokemon and that's awesome. - Pekka
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Ration it, and let the SUV drivers suffer!Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
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They should let the prices go up to reduce demand, Because gasoline and diesal, regardless of oil prices, are going up bigtime in a year or so. Refineries were already at capacity before the hurrican, and gasoline invetories shrinking. All usa gaosline and diesel refining is going to be rotated off line for a few months each over the next two year to retool for new evironmental regulations and reformulation (diesel must reduce sulfur, gasoline must increase oxygenation, and most refiners will also be phasing out the current oxygenator and octance booster MBTE). Without a reduction in demand, there will be shortages, and the new and increase oxygenator ingrediant are going to be more expensive. The capital cost at the refineries are projected to be billions of dollars.Gaius Mucius Scaevola Sinistra
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Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Ration it, and let the SUV drivers suffer!I'm about to get aroused from watching the pokemon and that's awesome. - Pekka
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Originally posted by Wycoff
I worry about the poor rural people, the people that have to drive 60 miles a day to go to their $8.00 an hour job. They are the least equipped to handle this problem.(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
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Originally posted by Urban Ranger
They will still be fine if their cars can do 40 miles/gal. Too bad for the SUV owners.Visit First Cultural Industries
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Originally posted by Urban Ranger
They will still be fine if their cars can do 40 miles/gal. Too bad for the SUV owners.
Besides, the 40 mpg cars don't often work in the Appalachians. I drive a Hyundai Accent, a car that gets 35+ MPG on flat land. When I visit my home in the Appalachians, it gets 22 or 23 at best, as it doesn't have the power to cope with the hills. I can't imagine what it must be like in the Rockies.I'm about to get aroused from watching the pokemon and that's awesome. - Pekka
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Originally posted by Whoha
So far so good, except tapping the SPR, it isn't for this. Now as for a long term remedy, that is sorely lacking.
You would think the US would have to do something itself, wouldn't you?(\__/)
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Originally posted by Wycoff
Put a price ceiling at $1.75 a gallon. The gas companies have made tens of billions of dollars this year. It's time for them to be "patriotic Americans" and sacrifice for the good of the country.You don't get to 300 losses without being a pretty exceptional goaltender.-- Ben Kenobi speaking of Roberto Luongo
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