Subj : Re: Gas Crunch
To   : Finnigann
From : Frank
Date : Wed Aug 31 2005 03:12:00

  Re: Re: Gas Crunch
  By: Finnigann to Frank on Wed Aug 31 2005 02:47 am

 > -=> Frank wrote to Finnigann <=-
 > 
 >  Fr>   Re: Re: Gas Crunch
 >  Fr>   By: Finnigann to Ralph Smole on Tue Aug 30 2005 06:16 pm
 > 
 >  > I think it's a precieved opportunity rather than a realy one. I can still
 >  > recall local dealers taking advantage of the 9/11 disaster to gouge their
 >  > customers. It took the state  to issue a warning to stop them and return 
 >  > to near normal.
 > 
 >  > I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn something very similar has happen
 >  > again.
 > 
 >  Fr>    Didn't Hawaii do just this last week? Impose a state wide cap at
 >  Fr> $2.70  something.
 > 
 > Sounds like it. Although after 9/11 the gas prices jumped from 1.60' to 2-4
 > dollars per gallon that day (or next). It was obvious as to what the retaile
 > were doing. It's called WAR profiteering and it's illegal.
 > 
 > I don't think Hawaii falls into that catagory (yet).
 > 
 > 
 > ... After we pull the pin, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.


   Maybe we should have invaded Hawaii in response to 9/11 instead of Iraq!

   It probably would have cost a whole lot less and it would have been over
   the next day! I can see US Marines submitting willingly to the babes in
   the grass skirts!


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