JH Better buy gas, too. The gougers and racketeers have already
JH jumped to $3 per gallon in Des Moines, as of this morning.

Snicker Uh, Jay, that would be free market entrepeneurs. Or have
you suddenly gone righteous/socialist on us?

Thousands of gas stations jacking gas prices nationwide, in lock-step with
each other, because of a trumped up "disaster" (and in the face of the
release of the Strategic Oil Reserve, which will totally off-set any effect
of Katrina) is not "entrepreneurship" -- it's criminal.

But it's an inevitable and utterly predictable result of our government's
ill-thought-out destruction of independently owned gas stations in the 1980s
and '90s. All we have left now are the big company stations, controlled by
a relatively small number of owners -- so it's easy for them to control
pricing.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
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