On 4 Sep 2005 09:35:43 -0700, "Stagger Leechildraper"
wrote:

(snips)

When YOU have something for sale that is suddenly much more
in demand, and there is much less of a supply of it, you
will sell it at a much higher price too - your labor, for
example, or your real estate, or your wheat crop, or your
rare Rembrandt painting, or your ... gasoline.

No, he was doing it to keep people from buying it. He was doing it to
make all the profits he can on somebody else's shortfall.

How do you suppose he's going to make profits if he doesn't
sell anything???

Guess what? When there is a crop failure in the Texas
cotton crop, _I_ make extra profits from their shortfall -
as I have every right to. So what?

--
Robert Sturgeon
Summum ius summa inuria.
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