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  • From: Ken VanDine <ken AT bizrace.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] price of gasoline
  • Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 17:11:29 -0400

Really, what are the chances that both stations would run out of regular and
plus at the same time. And... they would have to be crazy to leave the pump
on
if they were in fact out. I do know for a fact that is what they do when they
are low. Also, the guy behind the counter wasn't at all convincing that they
were out, he was a terrible liar... all these things combined upset me enough
to
just go pump my gas. I figured if the pumps were on, then it must not be that
low. Not an a$$ hole, just a victim...

--Ken


Quoting Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp AT pobox.com>:

> 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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--
Ken VanDine
biZrace Inc.
http://www.biZrace.com
kvandine AT biZrace.com




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