No kidding. Blood suckers. Now THAT is true capitalism.
-Gary
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Tretola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 10:00 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: Terrorist and gas shortage
>
>
> Those store and gas station owners who are gauging prices should be
> arrested. They are just GREEDY BASTARDS and they now have bad
> karma and will
> have to deal with that later.
>
> What comes around goes around.
>
> Rich
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terri Stocke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 10:49 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: Terrorist and gas shortage
>
>
> Same situation here (metro Detroit).
>
> I filled up at 6:00 p.m., and could barely pull into the station. Gas was
> 1.57 then. An hour later it was 1.68. This morning on my way to work the
> same gas station went to 1.76. Relatives in other cities have told me that
> in some parts of Detroit and neighboring suburbs it has jumped to $5.00 a
> gallon!
>
> We have seen reports on grocery store runs, but I think that that
> will wane
> as the initial panic subsides. There really would be no reason to
> do such a
> thing, but I think it's human nature.
>
> I do find it interesting that when we hear of oil prices going down and
> wonder why it takes so long for that price drop to be reflected at our gas
> stations we hear the station owners say "Well, it takes quite
> awhile for the
> oil prices to affect our price", but when the prices go UP, we
> see the price
> change within a matter of hours.
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Matthew W Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: Terrorist and gas shortage
> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 15:23:46 -0500
>
> gas just jumped from 1.50 to 3.50 per gallon around here
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: P Broussard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 2:53 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Terrorist and gas shortage
>
>
> I live in the Midwest and _every_one_ is freaking out. There are gas
> lines out into the streets because people think the government is going
> to shut down the pipe lines or that the terrorist are going to blow them
> up! It's bad enough the gas stations jacked the gas prices up 20 cents
> because of it. I am waiting for them to start a run on the grocery
> stores.
>
> Is anyone else seeing this kind of behavior? I refuse to give in to it
> but who knows I guess they could be right.
>
> Phillip
>
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