Actually, some of the stations tried to charge $5+ per gallon. Casey's
is iirc, owned by Walmart. Hmmm, imagine that.
>>> ghedlin@theramp.net 01/09/04 02:00PM >>>
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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