$1.95? There was a station near my house that cleared $3 a gallon that
day. If I recall correctly, it went to $3.85 before they realized that
there wasn't going to be any real shortage.
Gary Hedlin said:
>
> Heres a prime example,
>
> On September 11th, 2001, Casey's General Stores (a chain of gas stations
> here in IL) jacked up the price to 1.95 for unleaded. The Illinois
> Attorney
> General filed charges against them.... And Casey's was ordered to give
> refunds to customers who paid the over-inflated price.
>
> Heres some more info
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11,_2001_Terrorist_Attack/Opportunist
> s
>
> So if this Isn't artificial supply and demand dictated by oil companies, I
> don't know what is.
>
>
>
> On 1/9/04 6:40 AM, in article BC23FD02.2147%blkwidow1@primary.net, ""Jon
> N.
> Benignus"" <blkwidow1@primary.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> on 1/8/04 8:01 PM, Tony Cellana at acellan1@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
>>
>>> Artificial supply and demand as dictated by the oil companies.
>> And what evidence other than speculation do we have to back that up?
>>
>> Jon
>> STL MO
>>
>
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