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  • From: Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp AT pobox.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: " "http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] price of gasoline
  • Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 20:20:34 -0000

On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 16:14, Ken VanDine wrote:
> What really bothers me is that the gas stations have sooooo much influence.
> And
> they can also be corrupt... As if the prices were high enough already, I
> had
> this experience. This past winter I stopped at a local Shell station that
> had
> out of order covers on all the regular and plus nozzles, but the supreme was
> available. So, I drove accross the street to the Texaco station and they
> had
> the same thing. Obviously they conspired to only sell supreme for a short
> period of time assuming that people (with our busy lives) would just grab
> what
> was available and pay the higher price. I went in and questioned the clerk
> at
> the Texaco and he told me the truck they expected in didn't come and they
> were
> dry. So, I went outside and took the yellow cover off the regular nozzle
> and
> pumped... I got a full tank out of it... The clerk asked me to leave when I
> accused him of conspiring with the Shell station :-)

Well, you have to leave a bit in the bottom of the tank and the pump
system to keep it from running the pump dry. I don't know the details
of gasoline pump systems, but I expect that was the reason. If you had
managed to truly run the pump dry, you could have caused hundreds of
dollars in damage. Though I suspect most pumps would turn off
automatically when they truly get empty, I suspect this was part of the
reason.

Anyway, by shutting down the pumps instead they are being more
socialist. If it were a truly capitalist system, a shortage like that
would have resulted in the prices going MUCH higher.

Still, that was an a$$-hole move to take off the cover. I'm simply
amazed that people like you believe that you're more important than
everyone else.

--Jeremy


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