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sonnylax
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 Posted: 09/01/05 - 13:00 Post subject:
Simple supply and demand Pug. If there is a limited supply of gasoline, there is a very good reason to charge $6 a gallon. Higher prices will limit the demand. Artificial (i.e. government) controls will not limit demand.
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Posted: 09/01/05 - 13:02 Post subject:
| sonnylax wrote: | | Simple supply and demand Pug. If there is a limited supply of gasoline, there is a very good reason to charge $6 a gallon. Higher prices will limit the demand. Artificial (i.e. government) controls will not limit demand. |
In the wake of a major disaster on the other hand, it's a greedy, nasty thing to do to people in the first day after the disaster. If it turns out that the supply truly will be limited by 50%, then maybe $6 is reasonable. Mere days after the event....that's criminal.
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ShannonG
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Posted: 09/01/05 - 13:19 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | The next time Cool Running goes down, I'm charging a membership fee to post here.
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Gouger.
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Posted: 09/01/05 - 13:38 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | The next time Cool Running goes down, I'm charging a membership fee to post here.
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sonnylax
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Posted: 09/01/05 - 14:02 Post subject:
| ShannonG wrote: | | purple hayes wrote: | The next time Cool Running goes down, I'm charging a membership fee to post here.
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Gouger. |
If the demand is there, people will open up their wallets. 
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akern
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Posted: 09/01/05 - 14:08 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | The next time Cool Running goes down, I'm charging a membership fee to post here.
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Nobody would pay to post on this sucky website.
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Posted: 09/01/05 - 15:20 Post subject:
I think it's also wise to question the value of "just in time" as a supply tactic.
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Posted: 09/01/05 - 15:23 Post subject:
| akern wrote: | | purple hayes wrote: | The next time Cool Running goes down, I'm charging a membership fee to post here.
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Nobody would pay to post on this sucky website. |
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sonnylax
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Posted: 09/01/05 - 15:24 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | akern wrote: | | purple hayes wrote: | The next time Cool Running goes down, I'm charging a membership fee to post here.
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Nobody would pay to post on this sucky website. |
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PH is a freaking attention whore. You need to go knock somebody down in the race chute or something.
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Posted: 09/01/05 - 15:26 Post subject:
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sonnylax
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Posted: 09/01/05 - 15:26 Post subject:
| Gogirlgo wrote: | | I think it's also wise to question the value of "just in time" as a supply tactic. |
Maybe if the environmentalists would let the gasoline companies build some new/additional refineries and maybe if we didn't have to have 40 some odd different blends of gasoline for every municipality/state out there - "just in time" wouldn't be such an issue when it comes to gasoline production.
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