Gas prices in America have spiked recently, up to a national average of $ 1.70 per gallon. There have been a number of indirect influences on this, as anyone with a brain at least the equivalent of a chipmunk's could understand -- a major pipeline problem in Arizona (where prices have skyrocketed to over $ 2.00 per, and supply is still far short of demand even at that price) reduced refinery output in the wake of the northeastern blackout, ongoing dramas with Iraq's oil infrastructure, political turmoil in Venezuela, on and on. Anybody can figure this out.
Anyone, but Fred Dixon, of Lake Oswego, Oregon. Mr. Dixon, as cited in The Christian Science Monitor (article reproduced here) says that the price going up amounts to a "consumption tax on consumers."
A consumption tax? The price went up, in order to penalise consumers?
But Mr. Dixon is not our winner this week. That prize goes to Donelle Page of beautiful Modesto, California. In the same article Ms. Page informs those greedy gas stations out there that
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"You can't just change your prices because your costs are up."
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My advice to Ms. Page is to study a ninth-grade level introduction to business. On the consumer end, all I can say is if the gas costs too much don't buy it, dumbass. At some point you reach your niche on the demand curve where your need for gasoline outweighs your need for the $2 and you will buy it. Try a carpool. Try a bus. Buy a Geo, maybe even a bicycle. Don't be such a frickin' whiner all your life.
Phaedrus
Anyone, but Fred Dixon, of Lake Oswego, Oregon. Mr. Dixon, as cited in The Christian Science Monitor (article reproduced here) says that the price going up amounts to a "consumption tax on consumers."
A consumption tax? The price went up, in order to penalise consumers?
But Mr. Dixon is not our winner this week. That prize goes to Donelle Page of beautiful Modesto, California. In the same article Ms. Page informs those greedy gas stations out there that
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"You can't just change your prices because your costs are up."
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My advice to Ms. Page is to study a ninth-grade level introduction to business. On the consumer end, all I can say is if the gas costs too much don't buy it, dumbass. At some point you reach your niche on the demand curve where your need for gasoline outweighs your need for the $2 and you will buy it. Try a carpool. Try a bus. Buy a Geo, maybe even a bicycle. Don't be such a frickin' whiner all your life.
Phaedrus
