Who bought gas on May 15th?
There was an online boycott of gas stations for yesterday May 15th going around on facebook, my space and many other social websites. The thinking was to protest the high price of gas because the oil companies are 'gouging' at the pumps.
While nobody wants to pay any more than they have to for anything, from my perspective gas prices make sense. My thinking is that if you had an item for sale on e-bay you would accept the highest bid right? Why are the oil companies any more evil for finding out what the market will bear? Afterall doesn't this practice find a nice balance between supply and demand?
I filled up with gas yesterday because I found this protest rather useless especially considering that many people who boycotted yesterday would just fill up today or a couple days later and make no impact considering their consumption remains steady.
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