Saturday, March 22, 2008

Gas Station Prices Are You Getting Gouged?

The federal government on occassion investigates price gouging by gasoline stations. This is especially frequent in places where there has been some disaster which would have as one of many consequences, some price rising but then some station owners get greedy such as what happened in Katrina stricken locations a couple of years ago. When federal regulators do this kind of investigation they often announce it and the announcement will usually help to bring prices down a bit, but more often than not, the investigators send back a report that price movement is merely due to the forces of supply and demand.
The "market forces" argument is interesting. If a Fuel station spikes prices after a disaster so much that their profit margin goes up by half but people are still buying the gas, it's still a function supply and demand. However, the New York attorney general's office has proclaimed that a 25% increase in profits after a disaster is the demarcation where a fair increase turns into gouging. So, The market says the sudden price increase is okay, but the attorney general does not.
Many stations will take as much advantage of people as allowed. But the difference between increasing a price and gouging is answered by having "fairness" as the watchword.
Some stations, particularly any that are not part of a large chain, have to have a quicker trigger finger when it comes to price fluctuations because they are not in long term contracts with suppliers, or large tanks of reserves as many chain stations do
Other stations spike the price in a desperate attempt to avoid running out of gas altogether, so they can stay open to sell their convenience store items and keep from having to fire employees...
Bottom line is that gasoline prices are too high, and it doesn't matter to your bank account whether the gouging is happening at the highest levels of Big Oil or with a small gasoline station owner named "Hoss" or "Bubba" who wants to act like he is one of the big boys and rip off his customers!
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Source: http://www.classicarticles.com/Article/Gas-Station-Prices---Are-You-Getting-Gouged-/61551
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