On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:04:22 -0600, "NotMe" wrote:


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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.

Real world -- hotel rents room, for whatever price. FEMA or out of town
contractors show up and the current occupants are put on the curb. Been
there and watched it happen.

Or the mayor insists on running a race anyway. Government in action.
That's why it has to be limited.

Recent case in NYC hotel pressured to put out folk displaced by Sandy to
house folk coming to town for the marathon. Despite pressure from city
officials hotel owner refused claming a matter of ethics.

They had reservations, which weren't honored in many cases. Yes, it
is a matter of ethics.