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  • From: Laurie VanDine <laurie AT biZrace.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] price of gasoline
  • Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:44:02 -0000

Whoa...I'm all about friendly discussion and debate. But, that last
comment was a little harsh! Just sticking up for my husband here. I
100% support him.


On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 16:19, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> 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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