Price gouging and gas.

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: lokiju
I recently read an article about in the state of NY and price gouging of Milk, basically it stated that if it's $00.40 over the market cost then it's price gouging.

Are there similar rules against price gouging for gas?

Over this weekend I saw such a huge difference in gas cost from one station to the next that it got me to thinking of this.

I was coming home on Saturday and as soon as I got off the highway a gas station had regular 87 gas for $4.49 per gallon.

Then not even a mile down the road there was another station with regular for $3.98 per gallon.

Earlier in that same day I filled up my car for $3.99 and then later in the day filled up my wife's car at another part of town for $3.85.

How is it OK to have a difference $00.64 per gallon, all within the same county but it's not ok to have a $00.40 difference per gallon of milk?

there is a Phillips station that i drive by on my commute to work that is just off I-25. they are anad have always been 70 cents higher than what everybody else is charging. I see fricken morons getting gas there all the time, sometimes i want to just yell out "HEY YOU MORON, IF YOU GO ONE MILE UP THE ROAD GAS IS 70 CENTS CHEAPER"

 

[MaxDepth]

North Carolina is supposed to have a "task force" that will fine stations that are gouging. But damned if i know where that 800 number to the task force is.

Interesting note: I flew in Denver this weekend to go to a wedding. I rented a car with the provision that if I did not fill it back up, Hertz would charge me $7.18 per gallon to fill the tank back up. Right outside the Denver airport is a lone Conoco gas station. They charge $4.35 per gallon when in Denver we found gas for $3.85.

I understand Hertz's charge for the gas because they attach a service charge for filling it up but I wonder if anyone thinks of the Conoco station as gouging?

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Injury

Originally posted by: Scouzer
why don't you just type $0.40 or $0.64...the 00.64 makes no sense

It made perfect sense to me. Apparently it made sense to you because you understood it.


Mathematically it's correct, although there's no reason for the two 0's. Linguistically, if you understood something then it's correct.

False.

How is it not? Or do you have nothing to back it up?

 

[BoberFett]

Whaaaa! I deserve gas at whatever price I want to pay! Whaaaaaa!

Don't like it, don't buy it. Get a bike. Take the bus. Carpool. What makes you all think you're entitled to whatever the hell you want in life?

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Injury

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Injury

Originally posted by: Scouzer
why don't you just type $0.40 or $0.64...the 00.64 makes no sense

It made perfect sense to me. Apparently it made sense to you because you understood it.


Mathematically it's correct, although there's no reason for the two 0's. Linguistically, if you understood something then it's correct.

False.

How is it not? Or do you have nothing to back it up?

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

You can understand that pretty easily. You think that it's correct?

 

[FeuerFrei]

Not sure about laws, but some local stations in the Cincinnati area jacked up the price per gallon to $1.89, outrageous for the time, back when the US invaded Iraq. About a 50¢ hike. Days later they admitted to gouging and made a public apology, and maybe refunded money IIRC. Some gas station operators were panicing.

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Injury

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Injury

Originally posted by: Scouzer
why don't you just type $0.40 or $0.64...the 00.64 makes no sense

It made perfect sense to me. Apparently it made sense to you because you understood it.


Mathematically it's correct, although there's no reason for the two 0's. Linguistically, if you understood something then it's correct.

False.

How is it not? Or do you have nothing to back it up?

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

You can understand that pretty easily. You think that it's correct?

Linguistically, yes. Grammatically, no. Phonetically, no. Linguistics only asks if something is coherent. It ignores completely rules of the language in favor of studying how the mind interprets it.