Subj : Re: Gas Crunch
To   : Frank
From : Mrproper
Date : Wed Aug 31 2005 15:36:00

  Re: Re: Gas Crunch
  By: Frank to Finnigann on 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 st
 >  >  > recall local dealers taking advantage of the 9/11 disaster to gouge th
 >  >  > customers. It took the state  to issue a warning to stop them and retu
 >  >  > to near normal.
 >  >
 >  >  > I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn something very similar has hap
 >  >  > 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
 >  > dollars per gallon that day (or next). It was obvious as to what the reta
 >  > 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!
 > 
 > 

Huh? We've already invaded hawaii..


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