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"Brenda Ann" wrote:

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Attention to "nobody": Success as you call it is not against the law,
but "financial intercourse" is.


Care to cite that law?


There are laws (federal and state) against price gouging. These laws were
used to prosecute some vendors in the short term after the 9/11 attacks,
when some stations were selling gasoline for $5 a gallon. They were also
used (and well I remember) during the Arab Oil Embargo in the 70's when
gas
stations everywhere raised prices from 30 cents a gallon to in some cases
over $1 a gallon (our stations in Oregon averaged around 79
cents/gallon).
At that time, offenders were made to give out several millions of gallons
of
free gasoline (if you weren't around back then, you would never believe
the
lines... we could only buy gasoline on alternate days, and the lines were
often 3 to 4 blocks long waiting to get in (and the gas was being
rationed,
as we later found, not by the govt., but by the oil companies.. those
lines
were nothing compared to the days when the feds required the oil
companies
to give away the free gasoline... )

Yeah, but how does that apply to Exxon-Mobil today. As other posters
have admitted, Exxon-Mobil prices are quite competitive.

That depends on where you are in the country.

Nonsense.

The Mobil gas stations in my area always have the highest prices
compared to their competition in the same area.


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