Massive Power Outage

Wardad · #1 August 25th, 2003, 06:40 PM

The Phoenix gas situation has eased.
Mostly due to a temporary measure putting aside the requirements for our unique anti-pollution summer blend.
Now many distributors can help truck in gas from many directions.
On a really sad note, the tanker drivers will be allowed to work a 70 hour week. There are still hours-per-day driving restrictions. With two drivers, and a sleeping cab, the trucks can cover a lot of ground.

We are paying a lot more now.
It may not be gouging, at least by the little guy. Truckers get paid overtime. Gas stations have fixed expenses, rent, mortgage, utilites, insurance, and were selling less of a product that cost them more.

DavidG · #2 August 26th, 2003, 12:19 PM

Oh great now our gas prices are going up! Guess what they're blaming it on? It's hard to understand how a broken pipe way down there can cause our prices to go up.

CEO TROLL · #3 August 26th, 2003, 05:20 PM

Oh sure David G.... you you you it's always about you!!!

One lousy pipe between Tuscon and Phoenix and you think you you you......

LAST WOORD

Alpha Kodiak · #4 August 26th, 2003, 06:23 PM

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Originally posted by DavidG:
Oh great now our gas prices are going up! Guess what they're blaming it on? It's hard to understand how a broken pipe way down there can cause our prices to go up.

It's amazing isn't it.

And even though our gas shortage is pretty much a non-issue now, one of the outlying stations that I had to stop at this morning just raised its prices by six cents a gallon (sometime within the Last 4 days). I think they realized that they could squeeze a little more out of us, since they had been at $1.999 Last week when things were bad (they are about 5 miles out of town), and the in-town stations are running between $2.069 and $2.259 for the same gas.

Loser · #5 August 26th, 2003, 06:26 PM

That would be price gouging. I don't think there are laws against price gouging or certain banking practices to protect the consumer. I think those laws are to prevent anger mobs from lynching business owners and bankers.

Captain Kwok · #6 August 26th, 2003, 06:35 PM

My favourite part of US gas prices is the 9/10ths cent they always tack on the end. Always 9/10ths, not ever anything else. I suppose most people just think 1.569 is 1.56, when it's really 1.57!

Then again, it's always funny to watch people who drive around looking for the best deal. "Oh, it's only $0.753/L here and $0.764/L at the other station". That's like a whole savings there of maybe $0.50 for a full tank, and to make it worse they're driving a full-size SUV!

Alpha Kodiak · #7 August 26th, 2003, 07:48 PM

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Originally posted by Loser:
That would be price gouging. I don't think there are laws against price gouging or certain banking practices to protect the consumer. I think those laws are to prevent anger mobs from lynching business owners and bankers.

There are no price gouging laws in AZ. That may change after this, but I think caution should be exercized in their creation, as it would be easy to create laws that would adversely affect the market-driven economy that we live by. I guess we will see what happens....