Massive Power Outage

CEO TROLL · #1 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 · #2 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 · #3 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 · #4 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 · #5 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....

Loser · #6 August 26th, 2003, 08:32 PM

Better a hobbled economy than a dead gas station attendant.

(Not that I think it'd get that bad, on either end.)

E3 · #7 August 26th, 2003, 09:34 PM

Kwok, us Canadians do have one thing to thank American Commerce for.

XX.99

Ever wonder why everything has that lovely 99 cents tacked on at the end?

Same reason for the 9 tenths.

American business realised that most people see 24.99 and think "Oh wow, 24 bucks."
The AVERAGE consumer is stupid enough to think just that.

It might be a buck difference, but factor in tax (which Canada pays more of), and factor in a dollar here, a dollar there, and yet another dollar over there too.... and thats a lot of money.