Cyber Attack --> Gas Price Increase?

[samwichse]

I filled up my insight this morning... Now I've just got 700 miles range on that 10 gallons I put in.

Same friggin assholes that bought up all the TP learned absolutely nothing.

[ksa8907]

Originally Posted by samwichse

I filled up my insight this morning... Now I've just got 700 miles range on that 10 gallons I put in.

Same friggin assholes that bought up all the TP learned absolutely nothing.

Those gas cans on their side.... remind me of the lady who filled a grocery bag with gas and put it in her trunk.

I mean, can we get rid of the warning labels now? Let's let natural selection run its course.

[redpoint5]

If prices weren't unjustly and immorally required to stay below where the intersection of supply and demand met, there would always be supply, and people would tend to only buy what they needed, not what they could hoard.

For some reason this ape society in which I live firmly believes that hoarders should be rewarded, and commodities should be allocated as inefficiently as possible during crisis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRjNdgAetQE

[Vwbeamer]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

If prices weren't unjustly and immorally required to stay below where the intersection of supply and demand met, there would always be supply, and people would tend to only buy what they needed, not what they could hoard.

For some reason this ape society in which I live firmly believes that hoarders should be rewarded, and commodities should be allocated as inefficiently as possible during crisis.

Exactly. People and government go after retailers that raise prices, but higher prices discourage hoarding and allow wider distrubution of scarce goods.

[jakobnev]

I don't even...

[Autobahnschleicher]

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.

[LingLongRaceTeam]

Originally Posted by jakobnev

I don't even...

Its still liquid.

Stolen gas in plastic bag explodes, injuring three

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by Autobahnschleicher

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.

[freebeard]

[M]y cynical side thinks it was to hoard a scarce perishable resource.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by freebeard

perishable

That's a good point. BTW when dedicated-ethanol cars were common and the flexfuels in my country resorted to an auxiliary cold-start tank (small enough to not be useful for anything else but a few cold starts), gasoline would deteriorate inside that tank when not used for some months. That was one of the main reasons for newer flexfuels to resort to electric pre-heating of the fuel as a cold start aid instead.