[TheForge] OT--Gas prices, gas shortages, price gouging?

[Andy Gladish]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:07:17 -0700, DaveS <dschw at rocketmail.com> wrote:

> I know that the gasoline presently in the tank farms and pipelines does  
> not justify the jump in prices so I guess someone figures to make a wee  
> bit more profit based on rumors and scare tactics.

Sure they do. The stations don't make much, to me they look clean and  
prosperous and have logos from hugely profitable corporations, but most of  
the owners don't make squat- watch em come and go when you live in the  
same town for fifteen years or so...

Andy G