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Old 05-12-2021, 01:39 PM   #48 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Autobahnschleicher View Post
This makes me question why gas stations don't raise prices significantly to make massive profits.
These guys would buy the gas even if it's at 10$ and as a bonus, the gas station wouldn't run out as quickly.
Alternatively they could limit the maximum amount one can get to something like 10L or so.
There was 1 gas station in operation when we lost electricity for a week. About 4 miles outside of town was another gas station that had a backup generator to keep the pumps running. I saw a guy with a 300 gallon fuel container in his pickup bed waiting to fill it up while a line of cars were waiting their turns for fuel.

Perhaps he was taking the fuel to a church parking lot to distribute to the needy, by my cynical side thinks it was to hoard a scarce resource.
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