Raising gas prices on Memorial day, tradition or necessity?

Bushknew

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Thu Aug-21-03 12:46 PM
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Poll question: Raising gas prices on Memorial day, tradition or necessity?

Edited on Thu Aug-21-03 01:05 PM by Bushknew

Raising gas prices on Memorial day, tradition or necessity?

Please explain if you feel it is a necessity.

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Spazito

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Thu Aug-21-03 12:53 PM
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1. If you add the choice of price gouging...

I will vote.

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ProfessorGAC

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Thu Aug-21-03 01:02 PM
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2. Tradition

They use the excuse of supply and demand. Unfortunately, for the last three years the use of gasoline has not spiked by a statistically significant degree at or around Memorial Day. So, the gas prices went up in ANTICIPATION of a demand increase that didn't actually occur.

So, it's not really S & D. It's just an excuse to raise the price of a fairly inelastic demand commodity. People are going to buy the gas despite the extra 5 cents or so. So, they can gouge a little based upon history, without actually having to resort to actual usage data.
The Professor

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bigwoody

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Thu Aug-21-03 01:10 PM
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3. Like most fuckings of the middle class, it's a GOP tradition!

:puke:

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TahitiNut

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Thu Aug-21-03 01:19 PM
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4. After the end of the winter heating season,

... when refineries shift from home heating oil to gasoline, the prices are upped in a purely predatory move. Clear, dry roads and highways actually cause improved mileage, but because so much more is recreational they rationalize the shift as a form of regressive pricing. Remember, commercial consumption drops as a percentage of use. Corporate cronyism.

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AlabamaYankee

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Thu Aug-21-03 01:20 PM
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5. Summer always comes as a surprise

It's amazing, isn't it, how every summer the oil companies are caught by surprise by the unexpected increase in summer travel, and haven't prepared adequate stockpiles of gasoline. Then, along aobut the end of September they are shocked that the temperatures are going down, and OMG! people need fuel oil!

effin' geniuses

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Bushknew

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Thu Aug-21-03 02:15 PM
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6. It's amazing, isn't it, how every summer the oil companies haven't prepare

Edited on Thu Aug-21-03 02:16 PM by Bushknew

adequate stockpiles of gasoline. >>

Heh Heh

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