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

[Jonathan Barnhart]

Well, with everyone buying, it wasn't just the price increases, it was the fact that the pumps were running very low to empty because too many idiots started buying and filling up their tanks as well as gas cans.  Add to that, nobody knew when or if the next shipments were coming in.


--- On Fri, 9/12/08, GRAF <adveniam at att.net> wrote:

> From: GRAF <adveniam at att.net>
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] OT--Gas prices, gas shortages, price gouging?
> To: blakkpawss at yahoo.com, "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Friday, September 12, 2008, 7:13 PM
> The real idiocy here is folks spending a long time in line
> to save a few 
> bucks.
> If my truck was down to vapors and the price of gas was for
> sure going 
> to go up by $1 a gallon tomorrow, I wouldn't wait in
> line for a half 
> hour for the sake of the $20.
> Mike Graf