On Mon, 5 Nov 2012 08:21:02 -0600, "HeyBub"
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Let’s say for example that there is a big hurricane coming and you’re
told to leave the city. So you quickly pack your family in your
vehicle and set out on the road when you realize that you need gas.
So you stop at a gas station where the owner tells you that he’s
selling a gallon of gasoline for $300 a gallon. In fact the other gas
stations have also raised their prices to $300 dollars a gallon. You
only have about nine hundred dollars and three gallons isn’t going to
get you far. You argue with the gas station owner but he simply says
that it’s his gas station and he can damn well sell his gas for any
price he likes and that he’s just taking advantage of a very
profitable situation.
Do you think that is fair?

Absolutely.

It's his gas and he can sell it for whatever he can get.

And before you start ranting about "fairness," remember you have no
knowledge of what he PAID for his gas. For all you know, he could have paid
$299.85 per gallon. Would you insist he lose money because of your indolence
and sloth?

Secondly, the gas station you use as an example, probably lies in the
projected disaster area. The owner may simply be trying to enhance his
ability to rebuild.

Third, the gas station owner could have left at the same time as you, albeit
with a full tank, and because his station is now closed, you can't get gas
at ANY price. Shouldn't his risk be rewarded?

Or someone who needed it less got to it first.

Think of hotel rooms in a disaster. You check in and ask the cost.
The clerk replies $100/room. Cheap enough so you take one for you and
the Misses and another for the kids. It's party time! Well, if it
were $200, perhaps you'd have only taken one room and gotten by with
the kids in the same room. This leaves a room left for someone else.
But lefties would rather the second family sleep in the rain.