On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, don spence wrote: > I don't know about that Jim. The snopes dismissal sounds a lot like it > came from EXXON's PR dept. I don't know where you live but around here > "supply and Demand" dictates that the price of gas rises as much as 20 > cents a gallon on the wed before every long weekend. That sure looks to > me like " there will be a lot of people who want to go away this > weekend so let's jack up the price and gouge them. They won't be able > to wait until Tuesday so lets sock it to them". Isn't this how capitalism is supposed to work, though? If the amount of demand rises, so does the price? I think everyone who's complaining should spend a little time in England paying $5/gallon, so they get some sense of perspective. ;)
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